Catlin v. City of Wheaton

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that while summary judgment should be granted sparingly in excessive force cases, this holds true only when the parties “tell different stories about what happened”
• summary judgment often inappropriate in excessive force cases where “parties typically tell different stories about what happened”
• “Because the arrest was valid, the defendants were allowed to use some force in the course of effecting the arrest.”
• force not excessive where police tackled and kneeled on suspected drug kingpin who resisted arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).