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· 7/17/2014

Kitchen Ex Rel. the Estate of Kitchen v. Dallas County

Citations

  • 759 F.3d 468
  • 2014 WL 3537022
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 13699

How courts have described this case

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

  • remanding to the district court to “examine[ ] the actions of defendants individually in the qualified immunity context”
  • requiring separate QI analyses where the officers did not act in unison
  • discussing a Fourteenth Amendment claim of failure to provide medical care
  • “[B]ystander liability arises ... only where the plaintiff can allege and prove ‘another officer's use of excessive force.' ” (quoting Hale v. Townley, 45 F.3d 914, 919 (5th Cir. 1995))
  • “Defendants-Appeüees correctly observe that bystander liability arises under Hale only where the plaintiff can allege and prove another officer’s use of excessive force.” (citation and quotations omitted)

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Judges: Davis, Elrod, Costa

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