a prior memorandum opinion and order, the court dismissed Plaintiffs’ failure to aid claim against then-defendant County of Kern, which was alleged on the basis of a 20-minute response between the time of the call for medical assistance and the arrival of the ambulance. In Plaintiffs’ SAC, the claim for constitutional harm arising from failure to aid is aimed at officers Mejia and Manuele. The SAC alleges that Mejia and Manuele delayed (for an undisclosed period of time) in calling for medical assistance and that neither rendered any aid at the scene. Although the [Fourteenth] Amendment does not generally require police officers to provide medical assistance to private citizens, DeShaney v. [Winnebago County Dept. Soc. Svcs., 489 U.S. 189, 197, 109 S.Ct. 998, 103 L.Ed.2d 249 (1989) ] (<HOLDING>), when a state officer’s conduct places a
holding that the due process clause does not generally confer affirmative rights to governmental aid even where such aid may be necessary to secure life holding that the due process clause does not obligate the government to pay money damages holding that doctrine does not violate due process holding that the defendant bears the burden of proof and that such a disposition does not violate the due process clause holding that foreign states are not persons entitled to rights under the due process clause