Ford v. Retter

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he distinction between the defense of qualified immunity and the substantive law of an excessive force claim have [sic] become blurred.”
• \|T]he determination of qualified immunity turns on the same objective reasonableness standard that the claim of excessive force turns on____\
• summary judgment granted where arresting officer grabbed arrestee, pixlled him from bathroom, tripped him and threw him to ground, injuring his finger; use of force found to be reasonable from perspective of reasonable officer on the scene, who had to make split-second judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).