MITCHELL v. McNEIL

No. 06-5631.

487 F.3d 374 (2007)

Louis MITCHELL and Betty Foster, as parents and next friends of Daniel Mitchell, deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Markus McNEIL a.k.a. Marcus McNeil; Myron Myles; Dressels Fox; Patrick B. Fox; James H. Bolden, Jr.; Bobby Todd; Memphis, Light, Gas & Water; Memphis Police Department; City of Memphis; and John Doe, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 15, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Jeffrey S. Rosenblum, Marc E. Reisman, Rosenblum & Reisman, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellants. Lori Hackleman Patterson, Allan J. Wade, PLLC, Memphis, Tennessee, Jean E. Markowitz, Thomas Edwards Hansom, Law Offices of Thomas E. Hansom, Memphis, Tennessee, Henry L. Klein, Apperson, Crump & Maxwell, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: SUTTON and COOK, Circuit Judges; GWIN, District Judge.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

At the heart of this dispute is the claim that the City of Memphis, several of its agencies and several of its police officers violated the substantive due process rights of Daniel Mitchell when they permitted a police officer to loan a personal vehicle to an informant who subsequently collided with—and killed—Mitchell while driving the vehicle. The district court concluded that the allegations did not state a...

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