Court Opinion

ID: 9429306
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:26:23.957805+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:18.682825
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Justice Rehnquist,
with whom Justice White joins, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
I see no reason to decide in this case what requirements the Due Process Clause may impose upon a governmental agency by way of providing medical care to persons who have been injured while being apprehended by the police. As the Court points out, “[wjhatever the standard may be, Revere fulfilled its constitutional obligation by seeing that Kivlin was taken promptly to a hospital that provided the treatment necessary for his injury.” Ante, at 245. The Court’s other statements regarding the application of the Due Process Clause in this situation, ante, at 244-245 and this page, are therefore unnecessary as well as largely unsupported.
I concur in Parts I, II, III-A, and IV of the Court’s opinion.