Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al.
DueProcess Immigration JusticiabilityDoctri
1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process claim against the pursuing police officers for accidental injuries the officers did not intend.
2. Whether the Ninth Circuit's state created danger doctrine – which this Court has never approved – conflicts with cornerstone principles of substantive due process by (a) creating an affirmative State duty to provide emergency aid to persons injured by private conduct; and (b) allowing a substantive due process claim absent abuse of State authority or intent to harm.
Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process claim against the pursuing police officers for accidental injuries the officers did not intend