Clark v. Edmunds

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a sheriff did not seize a woman by pushing her out of the way of his path because “he did not intend to acquire physical control over her”
• where sheriff was taking a woman into protective custody, he did not seize the woman’s mother by pushing her out his way
• plaintiff’s claim falls under Fourteenth Amendment (and not the Fourth) when there was no “intentional acquisition of physical control” by the police (internal quotation marks omitted)
• evaluating an officer’s pre-seizure conduct under the Fourteenth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).