Thornton v. City of Pittsburgh

MEMORANDUM

GARY L. LANCASTER, Chief Judge.

This is an action in civil rights. Plaintiffs, Theresa Thornton and Jeremiah Mitchell, as co-administrators of the estate of Curtis Mitchell, assert a claim pursuant to section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (“section 1983”), 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs allege that defendants violated Curtis Mitchell’s right to substantive due process granted by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by failing to come to his rescue and take him to the hospital via ambulance during a snow storm that dropped more than 21 inches of snow in…