Sixth Circuit· 9/12/2012

Allen King v. Eric Taylor

Citations

694 F.3d 650
2012 WL 3968371
2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 19109

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holding that defendant waived his personal-jurisdiction defense where he “participated extensively in the litigation for over a year,” including “[vjoluntarily participating in full discovery on the merits”
holding that “forfeiture . . . was . . . clear” where, “[a]fter including the service defense in his answer, [defendant] was completely silent about it until the summary judgment stage”
recognizing that “[e]ven where a defendant properly preserves a Rule 12(b
concluding that use of deadly force against suspect who was holding a gun and had earlier threatened to “kill someone today” was unreasonable, assuming the individual “did not point [the] gun towards the officers just before he was shot”
explaining that an officer’s use of deadly force would be unreasonable if the suspect “did not point a gun towards the officers just before he was shot”
holding that the presence of a genuine dispute as to whether King was pointing a gun at the officers who shot him created “a question for the jury” because a jury could find that “King did not point a gun towards the officers just before he was shot”

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Judges: Sutton, Griffin, Dowd

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