Albright v. Oliver

Albright v. Oliver
Albright v. Oliver
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 24, 1994
Full case name	Albright v. Oliver
Citations	510 U.S. 266 (more)
Holding
	There is no substantive due process violation that creates liability under Section 1983 when the police arrests someone for conduct that is not unlawful.
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Harry Blackmun · John P. Stevens; Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia; Anthony Kennedy · David Souter; Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Case opinions
Plurality	Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Ginsberg
Concurrence	Scalia
Concurrence	Ginsberg
Concurrence	Kennedy, joined by Thomas
Concurrence	Souter
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Blackmun
Laws applied
	14 U.S.C. 1983

Albright v. Oliver, 510 U.S. 266 (1994), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that there is no substantive due process violation that creates liability under Section 1983 when the police arrests someone for conduct that is not unlawful.^[1] It was a plurality decision.^[2]

References

^ Albright v. Oliver, 510 U.S. 266 (1994)
^ Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Constitutional Torts". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 123.

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[1] Albright v. Oliver, 510 U.S. 266 (1994)

[2] Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Constitutional Torts". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 123.

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