Bailey v. Kennedy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a single 911 report was an insufficient based to seize the Plaintiff for a psychological evaluation
• noting that North Carolina public official immunity is “unavailable to officers who violate clearly established rights”
• “The law does not permit random or baseless detention of citizens for psychological evaluations.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It was especially clear that [the officers] were not entitled to use force after [the seized individual] was secured face down on the floor in handcuffs and leg restraints.”
• “It was especially clear that [the officers] were not entitled to use force after [the seized individual] was secured face down on the floor in handcuffs and leg restraints.”
• denial of official immunity under North Carolina law is immediately appealable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).