Hudson v. Independent Pier Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that teacher's use of excessive force with high school students in 1990 and 1991 violated plaintiffs' substantive due process rights
• holding that “pain, bruising, and emotional injury” provide the basis for a substantive due process claim when a school official acts maliciously and without any disciplinary purpose
• holding that, “[r]egardless of the appropriate ‘home’ for plaintiffs’ right to be free from excessive force, there was a clearly established right to be free such force” because “[u]nder any standard, [the defendant’s] alleged actions were clearly unlawful.”
• \All government officials are on notice that it is unlawful to use excessive force against citizens.\
• principal not entitled to qualified immunity where he physically assaulted multiple students when there was no need for force
• “since there 6 was no need for force, [the defendant’s] use of force was objectively unreasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).