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· 6/29/2006

Avendano-Garcia v. Gonzales

Citations

  • 187 F. App'x 711

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding Kan. Stat. Ann. § 19-811 did not waive Kansas’s sovereign immunity for prisoner claims
  • finding qualified immunity on Eighth Amendment claim in part because “[w]e decline to second guess [the officer’s] ‘split-second judgments’ about the necessary amount of force made in these ‘tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving’ circumstances.”

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Judges: Noonan, Pregerson, Thomas

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