Hendrickson v. Cooper

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a prisoner could testify that a guard “beat him up and that it hurt really bad”
• holding that a prisoner could testify that a guard “beat him up and that it hurt really bad”
• holding that, if the plaintiff had claimed tht the defendant’s actions “exacerbated his back problems, we might require Hendrickson to support his theory with some objective medical evidence,” but that ‘[t]his case presents no such complicated question of medical causation.”
• finding that “[n]o expert testimony is required to assist jurors in determining the cause of injuries that are within their common experiences or observations”
• acknowledging that “[taking inmate] to the concrete floor and knee[ing] him in the back” is “perhaps justified . . . to restrain a dangerous inmate”
• holding that “de minimis uses of force are non-actionable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).