Brashears v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, where an officer provides an opportunity for attack and does nothing or stands idly by while an attack takes place without intervening, he violates the attacked prisoner's constitutional rights
• noting that a plaintiff \can clearly claim excessive force against [an officer] for [a] slap to the face\
• plaintiff “can clearly claim excessive force against [the officer] for the slap to the face”
• where an officer provides an opportunity for attack and does nothing or stands idly by while an attack takes place without intervening, he violates the attacked prisoner's constitutional rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).