Peter Clayton McClendon v. City of Columbia, City of Columbia James R. Carney

*319PER CURIAM:*

In July 1993, Defendant-Appellee Detective James Carney, a City of Columbia police detective, loaned a gun to Kevin Loftin, an informant for the Columbia Police Department, to enable Loftin to protect himself from Plaintiff-Appellant Peter McClendon. Loftin subsequently used the gun to shoot McClendon. A panel of this court held that Detective Carney thereby violated McClendon’s substantive due process rights and that the unconstitutionality of Detective Carney’s conduct was clearly established at the time of his actions. See McClendon v. City of Columbia, 258 F.3d 432, 441-43…