Hamilton v. City of Olympia

How courts have described this case

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• finding 4 an officer’s application of pepper spray to the plaintiff’s face, temporarily blinding him, 5 “terminated” the plaintiff’s freedom of movement
• “[H]is freedom of movement was terminated in both instances after he was sprayed with pepper spray.”
• plaintiff’s reliance on testimony from lead officer and training officer was sufficient 20 to establish an issue of fact as to whether use of pepper spray was an “official custom, 21 pattern or policy” under Monell.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).