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· 3/18/2008

Williams v. Berney

Citations

  • 519 F.3d 1216
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 5752
  • 2008 WL 708436

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “The combination of serious physical abuse and the assaulting official’s use of official authority to force the victim to submit can shock the conscience.”
  • substantive due process prohibits “only the most egregious official conduct”
  • noting the 10th Circuit test used in school discipline cases
  • inspector pushing, shoving, and repeatedly striking business owner insufficient
  • describing “murky” doctrinal “waters” of substantive due process
  • describing “murky” doctrinal “waters” of substantive due process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hartz, McKay, Tymkovich

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