Blackwell v. Barton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• § 1983 claim for illegal arrest and detention “is properly considered under the Fourth Amendment”
• “We hold that Blackwell’s section 1983 claim against Barton for illegal arrest and detention is properly considered under the Fourth Amendment, the more specific constitutional right implicated by her allegations.”
• “We hold that Blackwell’s section 1983 claim against Barton for illegal arrest and detention is properly considered under the Fourth Amendment, the more specific constitutional right implicated by her allegations.”
• officer was entitled to qualified immunity after he arrested a person with “the same height and weight, sex, race, age, nickname, and at the location where he expected to find [the suspect]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).