DuFour-Dowell v. Cogger

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing IIED claim where officer “grabbed [plaintiff’s] arm, gave her a hard jerk, and forced her face down on the floor with her arm behind her back”
• analyzing an IIED claim and finding that “[i]n situations involving unlawful arrests or excessive force by police officers, there must be more than just a lack of probable cause or some excessive force.”
• “Under the facts of the present case, a finding of excessive force is not necessarily inconsistent with the validity of [plaintiff’s] resisting arrest conviction.”
• defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity on excessive force claim where they threw plaintiff “to the floor and applied substantial pressure to her back even though she responded with virtually no resistance and had given virtually no indication of fleeing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).