Bender v. County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the Bane Act applied 9 because an arrest without probable cause and with the use of excessive force involved 10 “coercion that is no way inherent in an arrest, either lawful or unlawful”
• rejecting a broad interpretation of Shoy-oye that requires a plaintiff show “threats, intimidation, or coercion” independent from a violation of the federal constitution
• “Where, as here, an arrest is unlawful and excessive force is applied in making the arrest, 2 there has been coercion independent from the coercion inherent in the wrongful detention itself— 3 a violation of the Bane Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).