Court Opinion

ID: 9499385
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:47:20.401208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:59:28.683265
License: Public Domain

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I fully concur in the reasoning and result reached by the lead opinion. My purpose in writing separately is simply to point out my total befuddlement as to why the EMTs would not have attended to *288Carver under the circumstances as alleged in the complaint. But the complaint fails to bring this case within either of the exceptions set forth in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189, 109 S.Ct. 998, 103 L.Ed.2d 249 (1989). In contrast to the facts of Beck v. Haik, 377 F.3d 624, 636 (6th Cir.2004), the present complaint makes no allegation that the defendants “cut off private sources of rescue” that otherwise would have intervened to save Carver. If there had been allegations of a private rescue attempt aborted by the defendants’ actions, I would have concluded that qualified immunity was not appropriate on a motion to dismiss.