Sixth Circuit· 4/12/2018

David Hopper v. Phil Plummer

Citations

887 F.3d 744

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holding that the court lacked jurisdiction over the defendants’ claim that a right to medical care was not clearly established because the underlying “medical-personnel argument is fact-bound”
holding that “forcibly restraining an individual in a prone position for a prolonged period of time when that individual pose[s] no material threat” is unconstitutional
discussing whether prohibition against placing weight on arrestee’s 14 body after he was handcuffed was clearly established in Sixth Circuit
declining to exercise jurisdiction where it was “sharply disputed whether and to what extent” “non-medical prison officials reasonably rel[ied] on or defer[ed] to medical staff expertise”
declining to disturb district court’s denial of qualified immunity in light of its “finding of a genuine issue of material fact as to defendants’ ‘knowledge of a substantial risk of serious harm’”
discussing the differing standards between Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims and Eighth Amendment claims

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Judges: Batchelder, Griffin, White

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