Childress v. City of Arapaho, OK

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that accidental injuries inflicted on a hostage during the course of an arrest did not constitute a seizure
• holding that no seizure occurred when police officers shot at suspects and hit hostages
• holding that police “did not ‘seize’ plaintiffs within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment” when they accidentally shot the hostages while making “every effort to deliver them from unlawful abduction”
• applying Brower to find that a hostage who was accidentally injured when police shot at a suspect was not seized under the Fourth Amendment
• “The police officers in the instant case did not ‘seize’ plaintiffs within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment but rather made every effort to deliver them from unlawful abduction.”
• officers 27 inadvertently shot bystander plaintiffs when using deadly force to stop prison escapees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).