In re Mead's Estate

How courts have described this case

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

• holding right clearly established in part through regional and state-wide police practice
• officers not entitled to qualified immunity for spraying protesters with pepper spray during the course of a riot
• \`[T]he essence of the Graham objective reasonableness analysis' is that'[t]he force which [i]s applied must be balanced against the need for that force: it is the need for force which is at the heart of the Graham factors.'\
• “ ‘[T]he essence of the Graham objective reasonableness analysis’ is that’[t]he force which [i]s applied must be balanced against the need for that force: it is the need for force which is at the heart of the Graham factors.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).