Hagans v. Colvin

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• holding that remand to apply a different legal standard is “unnecessary if ‘the record permits only one resolution of the factual issue’” (quoting Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S. 273, 292 (1982))
• finding that some force was reasonably necessary when a patient “violently resist[ed] the paramedics’ attempts to render him life-saving assistance” and “paramedics were unable to gain physical control over [him]”
• justifying the use of a taser when “four paramedics were unable to physically restrain [the plaintiff], whose health was rapidly deteriorating”
• internal quotations removed, quoting Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223, 231 (2009)
• restating the objective reasonableness standard in Graham

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