El Pueblo De Puerto Rico v. Echevarria Gonzalez, Luis D

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting deliberate indifference claim where plaintiff “offer[ed] no evidence indicating that the officer intentionally delayed driving the ambulance in order to cause harm”
• “Qualified immunity protects officers from suit unless their conduct violates a clearly established constitutional right.”’
• deadly force was not objectively unreasonable when a suspect had “brandish[ed] an eighteen to twenty inch sword” and failed to “respond to commands to drop his sword or to stop moving toward [police] officers”
• to survive qualified immunity, a plaintiff must establish a violation of a constitutional right
• “If there is no constitutional violation, [the Court’s] inquiry ends”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).