advance/newhouse Partnership v. Department of Treasury

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “[b]eing slammed face-first into the ground for filing a grievance would likely deter ‘a person of ordinary firmness’ from filing future grievances”
• finding “officers had a significant need to bring Plaintiff under control” after failing to comply with orders and shouting expletives
• finding that the amount of force used against an inmate who sneezed on a correctional officer, who mistakenly believed the inmate had spit on him, was “appropriately calibrated to the threat posed by [the inmate],” where the inmate “had a history of spitting on officers”
• “We also credit the specific facts pled in [a plaintiff’s] sworn complaint when considering his opposition to summary judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).