Ali v. Szabo

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiffs complaint “of pain and numbness in his hands and back for weeks after the incident; ... swelling of his hand and a strained back two months after the incident; and ... pain ... at the time of his deposition” sufficed for excessive force purposes
• denying summary judgment because “the [c]ourt must construe the facts in favor of the non-movant,” and therefore “the [c]ourt assume[d] for purposes of th[e] motion that [the plaintiff
• dismissing prisoner's retaliation claim where prisoner did not allege any injury as a result of defendant's action
• “[S]ince there is no evidence that defendants were personally involved in [the plaintiff’s] alleged denial of medical treatment, defendants should be granted summary judgment on this claim.”
• “The Court cannot conclude as a matter of law that [officers’] conduct was objectively reasonable since there are material issues of fact as to whether [plaintiff] was obeying the officers’ order and who started the physical confrontation.”
• “In order to state a claim for excessive force under the Fourteenth Amendment, the governmental act complained of must be such an abuse of power as to shock the conscience in a constitutional sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).