Hathaway v. Bazany

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police officer was justi- fied in using deadly force against a car accelerating toward him
• holding that a police officer was justified in using deadly force against a car accelerating toward him
• holding that plaintiff's inability to establish underlying constitutional violation forecloses chance for recovery against individual defendant
• applying the Graham standard to determine whether an officer was entitled to qualified immunity from an excessive use of force claim
• noting that the “reasonableness of an officer’s use of deadly force is. . . determined by the existence of a credible, serious threat to the physical safety of the officer or to those in the vicinity”
• reiterating the uncontroversial proposition that a plaintiff needs more than a “scintilla of evidence” to create a genuine dispute of material fact

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