Cherrington v. Skeeter

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to grant qualified immunity because the Court “lack[ed] the information necessary to resolve the issue of causation,” i.e., which government official’s actions caused the untimely detention
• “[I]f [the plaintiff] was arrested, ... [the officers’] action must have been supported by probable cause.”
• “As another example, the police have the limited authority to briefly detain those on the scene, even wholly innocent bystanders, as they execute a search or arrest warrant.”
• “[T]he undisputed record establishes a violation of Riverside's [forty-eight]–hour rule, and [the] [d]efendants have failed to identify any emergency or other extraordinary circumstance that might take this case outside of the general rule.”
• qualified immunity shielded officers who took children to station house

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).