Federal 7th Circuit Court
Civil Court
Due Process
Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the defendant and five police officers after her husband died due to a crash caused by a high-speed chase where the suspect’s car crashed into the decedent’s car. Plaintiff alleged that the city failed to train its officers and that this violated her husband’s substantive due process rights. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants and plaintiff appealed. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, finding that the officers’ actions in the emergency situation did not support a Fourteenth Amendment claim. (EASTERBROOK and PRYOR, concurring)