Charles Bella v. Lee Chamberlain and Curtis Meyers

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a court will “scrutinize only the seizure itself, not the events leading to the seizure, for reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment” (quoting Cole, 993 F.2d at 133)
• refusing to scrutinize events occurring one hour before the actual seizure and noting the events were not immediately connected with the seizure
• finding no seizure where shots fired at a fleeing helicopter “did not cause [the plaintiff] to submit nor did they otherwise succeed in stopping him”
• “[W]hen law en- forcement officers shoot at a fleeing suspect, a ‘seizure’ occurs only if the shot strikes the fleeing person or if the shot causes the fleeing person to submit to this show of authority.”
• force not disproportionate to need

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).