In Re: Deloris Phillips v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant who pled “no contest” to assaulting an officer was estopped from later asserting an excessive force claim under § 1983
• holding that an Ohio assault conviction Heck-barred an excessive force claim where the plaintiff did not raise excessive force as a defense
• holding that opening the door very slightly at the request of the police does not constitute exposing oneself to the public view and therefore there was no surrender of legitimate expectation of privacy
• holding that opening the door very slightly at the request of the police does not constitute exposing oneself to the public view and therefore there was no surrender of legitimate expectation of privacy
• explaining that a homeowner’s attempt to close his partially open front door was a sign that he “wished to end his conversation with the officers”
• explaining that a homeowner’s attempt to close his partially open front door was a sign that he “wished to end his conversation with the officers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).