Acevedo, Edward v. Canterbury, Dennis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the question of whether an officer seized an individual by punching him in the face was a question for the jury
• concluding that the question of whether an officer seized an individual by punching him in the face was a question for the jury
• explaining that an officer seized the plaintiff with a single punch that briefly knocked him to the ground
• finding that a police officer who files a false report may be liable for false arrest if the report leads to an arrest even if he did not conduct the arrest himself
• finding seizure where blow to the head temporarily rendered the plaintiff unconscious
• “The fact that the restraint on the individual’s freedom of movement is brief makes no difference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).