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· 11/2/2012

Efrain Sanchez v. City of Chicago

Citations

  • 700 F.3d 919
  • 83 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1486
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 22555
  • 2012 WL 5377806

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining, in a Fourth Amendment case alleging excessive force, that an officer may be \held to account both for his own use of excessive force . . . as well as his failure to take reasonable steps to attempt to stop the excessive force used by his fellow officers\
  • “failure to intervene” is a form of “personal involvement” that does not require actual “participat[ion] in [the] misconduct”
  • “[F]ailure to intervene” is a form of “personal involvement” that does not require actual “participat[ion] in [the] misconduct”
  • failure to intervene is a form of personal involvement for purposes of § 1983
  • an officer can be liable for both for his own use of excessive force and his failure to take reasonable steps to stop the use of excessive force by fellow officers
  • an officer can be liable for both for his own use of excessive force and his failure to take reasonable steps to stop the use of excessive force by fellow officers

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Judges: Bauer, Rovner, Sykes

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