Legal Opinion
Fagan v. City of Vineland
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 29, 1994No. 92-5481, 92-5482, 92-5551 and 92-5594PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
COWEN, Circuit Judge.
These five consolidated actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 arose from a high-speed police pursuit in Vineland, New Jersey, in which an automobile attempting to evade Vineland police officers crashed into an innocent bystander’s vehicle. Three people were killed and three others were injured. The plaintiffs are the survivors of the accident and the estates and relatives of those who were killed. They claim that their Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process rights were violated because the police officers pursued the fleeing automobile in a reckless…
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