Essalene Lambert v. City of Dumas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “any inference of suicidal tendencies that could be drawn from” a possible attempt to self-harm “would be extremely tenuous” because “[m]ore than three years had elapsed”
• stating that knowledge of a single incident of attempting to swallow a crack pipe three years previous did not give rise to knowledge of a present serious risk of suicide
• stating that knowledge of a single incident of attempting to swallow a crack pipe three years previous did not give rise to knowledge of a present serious risk of suicide
• denying qualified immunity where police officers “‘violently shoved’ and ‘kicked’ [the arrestee] into the patrol car” even though the arrestee “did not resist arrest”
• single small cut on the eyelid and small scrapes of the knee and calf support a finding of excessive force under the circumstances
• same for “single small cut of the ... eyelid and small scrapes of the ... knee and upper calf’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).