Calvin B. Champion v. Outlook Nashville, Inc., Debbie Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it was not objectively reasonable for officers to “lay on top of Champion, a mentally retarded individual who had stopped resisting arrest and posed no flight risk, and spray[ ] him with pepper spray even after he was immobilized by handcuffs and a hobbling device”
• “The diminished capacity of an unarmed detainee must be taken into account when assessing the amount of force exerted.”
• excessive for police officers to “lay on top of’ an arrestee “who had stopped resisting arrest and posed no flight risk, and [then] spray[ ] him with pepper spray even after he was immobilized by handcuffs and a hobbling device”
• permitting testimony about police practices regarding the use of force

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).