Eric Dewayne Price v. James Skokan & Diana C. Skokan. as Trustees of James Skokan & Diana C. Skokan 1989 Inter Vivos Trust

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• noting that district court opinions are “not binding precedential authority” (citing Mason-Funk v. City of Neenah, 895 F.3d 504, 509 (7th Cir. 2018))
• providing that district court opinions are not binding precedential authority
• confirming an arrestee’s analogous right to be free from excessively tight handcuffs
• “the key fact is that the officer must know the handcuffs will cause unnecessary pain or injury”
• “To defeat qualified immunity, however, the right must be defined more specifically than simply the general right to be free from unreasonable seizure.”
• “[A]bsent any indication an officer is aware the handcuff tightness or positioning is causing unnecessary pain or injury, the officer acts reasonably in not modifying the handcuffs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).