Ilbur D. Thompson v. Butch Hamilton Ronnie Law

How courts have described this case

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

• “Pretrial detainees are protected from excessive force that amounts to punishment under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
• guard’s grabbing and twisting of prisoner’s arm and choking of prisoner was de minimis because it occurred while guard attempted to remove prisoner from his cell, was brief, and failed to result in injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).