Giant Food, Inc. v. Scherry

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a person has, in effect, a double responsibility—one to the prospective arrestee not to use unnecessary force against him, and one to the public at large to use even reasonable force in a reasonable manner”
• finding that use of deadly force to stop a fleeing felon, though permissible as against the felon, was not reasonable where innocent bystanders were placed in jeopardy by the officer's action
• security guard’s privilege with respect to use of reasonable force against robber does not end inquiry as to responsibility to third parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).