James Gladden, Jr. v. Kenneth Richbourg

How courts have described this case

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• stating qualified immunity is evaluated “from the perspective of a reasonable police officer based on facts available to the officer at the time of the alleged constitutional violation”
• granting qualified immunity to officers who left plaintiff out in the cold because the plaintiff was not so extremely intoxicated that it was obvious to officers that he could not walk or make decisions for himself
• granting qualified immunity to officers who left plaintiff out in the cold because the plaintiff was not so extremely intoxicated that it was obvious to officers that he could not walk or make decisions for himself
• “Circumstances that are harmless to a sober person may be dangerous to one who is severely intoxicated[.]”
• explaining why seizures are different from custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).