Cohron v. City of Louisville

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 reasonable person could conclude that a search occurred where officer displayed authority and reached out to conduct frisk, but in response the person pushed the officer and tried to run away
• “The risk that an incorrect jury instruction prejudiced a party depends at least in part on how closely balanced the evidence was at trial.”
• “If an instruction is legally deficient, a new trial is required only if the flawed instruction could have confused or misled the jury causing prejudice.”
• “Williamson initiated the search by reaching out with his hand and putting Doornbos in imminent apprehension of an offensive contact.”
• “In deciding excessive force claims, the issue is whether an officer’s use of force was objectively reasonable given the information he or she knew at the time.”
• “In deciding excessive force claims, the issue is whether an officer’s use of force was objectively reasonable given the information he or she knew at the time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).