Johnson v. Westerfield's Admr.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that Connick “reaffirmed the viability, in a narrow range of circumstances, of the single-incident theory of liability envisioned in Canton”
• finding that factual disputes precluded grant of qualified immunity on excessive force claim
• finding reasonable force where it was “uncontroverted that [a defendant officer] only employed force against [the plaintiff] . . . after hearing [a fellow officer] say ‘gun’ or ‘drop the weapon’”
• “[A negligent entrustment claim] is based on the degree of knowledge the supplier had or should have had concerning the entrustee’s propensity to use the chattel in an improper or dangerous fashion.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).