Coon v. Ledbetter

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the defendant sheriff’s statement that he would “rather [he and his employees] be tried by twelve than carried by six” to be “too slender a reed to support the conclusion that he encouraged his deputies to use excessive force.”
• finding that a suspect’s four-year-old daughter stated an excessive force claim because officers knew, or should have known, that she was in her father’s trailer when officers shot into it
• rejecting a civil rights claim by the mother of a child traumatized by police conduct
• explaining that precedent “does not stand for the broad proposition that if a policymaker defends his subordinates and if those subordinates are later found to have broken the law, then the illegal behavior can be assumed to have resulted from an official policy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).