Elijah Kaluanya v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a person who remained in his vehicle despite officers’ repeated commands for him to exit the vehicle was not actively resisting, and officers’ use of a Taser gun to subdue the person was “objectively unreasonable” and violated the Fourth Amendment
• tasing plaintiff, throwing him to the ground, and placing knee on his neck while he “was suffering from a hypoglycemic episode”
• first citing Hagans v. Franklin Cnty. Sheriff’s Off., 695 F.3d 505, 509 (6th Cir. 2012) and then citing Kijowski, 372 F. App’x at 601
• “If there is a common thread to be found in our caselaw on this issue, it is that noncompliance alone does not indicate active resistance; there must be something more.”
• “noncompliance alone does not indicate active resistance; there must be something more”
• “noncompliance alone does not indicate active resistance; there must be something more”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).