Family members filed Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process claim for deprivation of familial association caused by officers shooting family member; court found conduct did not shock the conscience where decedent entered and fled from another’s home armed with knives.
Correction officers did not violate rights of pretrial detainee, who had gastrointestinal health issues from earlier gastric bypass surgery and had been placed on a specialized diet and prescribed antacids, for failing to call 911 in response to her initial complaints of abdominal pain, although she was scheduled to meet with doctor the next day, and when she did, he sent her to a hospital where she had surgery for a perforated ulcer; citing previous decision in Browner v. Scott Co., 14 F.4th 585 (6th Cir.
Where facts were disputed as to whether decedent was “on the attack” against officer or turned away as shots in back suggested, and officer shot decedent six times without warning, officer not entitled to qualified immunity on summary judgment.
Officer entitled to qualified immunity for Tasing suspect who rose to his feet and continued to approach officer after officer ordered him to stop and threatened use of Taser, distinguishing other similar cases.