Chappell v. City of Cleveland

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that whether a person was “separated” from officers is only relevant if the barrier posed an impediment to the person reaching the officer
• reversing denial of qualified immunity in case where suspect approached officers with a knife and did not respond to commands to drop the weapon
• granting summary judgment when decedent moved quickly toward police officers with a knife
• affirming the district court’s rejection of arguments regarding the officers’ behavior in executing a search warrant because “it is the reasonableness of the ‘seizure’ that is the issue, not the reasonableness of the detectives’ conduct in time segments leading up to the seizure”
• “Qualified immunity ordinarily applies unless it is obvious that no reasonably competent official would have concluded that the actions taken were unlawful.”
• “[A]ll reasonable inferences are drawn in favor of the plaintiff, to the extent supported by the record[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).