A. D. v. State of Calif. Highway Patrol

How courts have described this case

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• stating that when evaluating a Rule 50 motion the court should 20 “give significant deference to the jury’s verdict and to the nonmoving parties”
• holding district court has discretion “to consider the amounts discussed in settlement negotiations, or not”
• explaining that, at the motion to dismiss stage, a defendant’s entitlement to immunity turns “on the facts alleged” by the plaintiff
• noting that defendant preserved his position on qualified immunity—renewed in Rule 12 50(b) motion after trial—by bringing Rule 50(a) motion for JMOL before case was submitted to jury
• noting that, even if an officer ultimately arrests the suspect, “he still violates the [D]ue [P]rocess [C]lause if he used force with only an illegitimate purpose in mind”
• expressing that, because juries are presumed to follow the court’s instructions, “we can infer that the jury made [a particular finding] by viewing the jury’s verdict in light of the jury instructions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).