Cecil Edwards, Jr. v. Karl Byrd

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• holding that it was clearly established that force used against inmates who were lying on the floor submissively, face-down, would violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding that the video evidence did not blatantly contradict plaintiff’s account of the events where it did not conclusively disprove the plaintiff’s account
• determining that district court correctly denied guards qualified immunity after finding “that the guards were aware that excessive force was being used against the plaintiffs but did not intervene to protect them”
• holding Eighth Amendment violations necessarily violate pre-trial detainee’s rights
• involving use of a flash-bang grenade and bean-bag guns on compliant pretrial detainees
• “[T]he guards vigorously dispute the facts that the district court found to be supported by the record. But we lack jurisdiction to field such factual arguments on interlocutory review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).