Ervin v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• holding that suffering only de minimis injuries does not bar one from asserting a Fourth Amendment excessive force claim
• explaining that the de minimis nature of an injury does not bar a Fourth Amendment excessive force claim but may indicate that the force used was reasonable
• “The second Graham factor likewise weighs in favor of [plaintiff], as Defendants had no reason to believe that [plaintiff] would react violently or incite a riot if confronted by officers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).