Summar v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the dismissal of the plaintiffs § 1983 state-created danger claim because the officer did nothing to increase the risk the confidential informant had voluntarily assumed
• “[Police] merely asked [Summar] to serve as an informant and did not impose any constraint on his freedom to act. Rather than strip Summar of his choices, [police] provided him with an option that would allow him to be treated favorably by the district attorney.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).