Falyn Bruce v. Derek Guernsey

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming dismissal of Fourth Amendment claim against officers who, based on dispatcher's report that plaintiff was possibly suicidal, detained her until another officer arrived
• “Recall that for mental-health seizures, the question is whether there is probable cause to believe that the subject of the seizure is a danger to herself or others.”
• “the constitutionality of a seizure does not depend on the particularities of state law”
• “the constitutionality of a seizure does not depend on the particularities of state law”
• probable cause depends on what the officers knew before the seizure
• “The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution governs mental-health seizures.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).