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Seventh Circuit· 1/23/2025

Blake Stewardson v. Christopher Titus

Citations

  • 126 F.4th 1264

Oral argument

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How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that a Monell claim normally requires “evidence that the identified practice or custom caused multiple injuries”
  • upholding an $850,000 punitive damages award against a single officer in a brutal police beating
  • “Before piercing an officer’s immunity shield, a court must answer both steps of the inquiry in the affirmative.”
  • “The law does not require officers to act as fortune tellers, anticipating when their fellow officers might use excessive force in the future…”
  • “[T]he law as it ex- isted” at the time of the incident “would have led a reasonable officer to conclude” his actions were “appropriate.”
  • officers went out to lunch for nearly two hours between receiving verbal authorization to arrest and entering the home

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Judges: Jackson-Akiwumidissents

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