Hadley v. Gutierrez

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that officer was not liable for separate officer’s excessive force because he could not have anticipated or stopped officer’s single punch to plaintiff’s stomach
• concluding that an officer who struck a handcuffed suspect who was “not struggling or resisting” used gratuitous and excessive force
• concluding that officer was not liable for separate officer’s excessive force because he could not have anticipated or stopped officer’s single punch to plaintiff’s stomach
• concluding that a defendant officer’s “single punch constituted excessive force” when the plaintiff “was handcuffed and not struggling or resisting”
• concluding that an officer did not commit a constitutional violation when he did not prevent another officer from punching plaintiff in the stomach
• holding that “a handcuffed, non-resisting [suspect’s] right to be free from excessive force was clearly established [by] February 2002.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).