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· 9/22/2015

Hargraves v. District of Columbia

Citations

  • 134 F. Supp. 3d 68
  • 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 126401
  • 2015 WL 5611550

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an officer “reasonably used a tactical takedown maneuver to force the plaintiff to ground”
  • concluding that an officer's \decision to place handcuffs on the plaintiff for safety reasons\ constituted a \reasonable use ... of force during [an] investigative stop[ ]\
  • concluding that an officer’s “decision to place handcuffs on the plaintiff for safety reasons” constituted a “reasonable use . . . of force during [an] investigative stop[]”
  • holding that because the defendant officers properly effected a Terry stop, their \conduct did not amount to any deviation from the standard of care by either defendant officer\ that could support a claim for NIED
  • holding that because the defendant officers properly effected a Terry stop, their “conduct did not amount to any deviation from the standard of care by either defendant officer” that could support a claim for NIED
  • holding that a plaintiff engaged in active confrontation when he “refused to get down on the ground as the officer commanded” and “refused to provide his loose arm to be handcuffed” during the course of an investigatory stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Beryl A. Howell

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