Kling v. Harris Teeter Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[m]ere negligence in the supervision or oversight of an officer... is insufficient to establish a... policy or custom” for which liability may be imposed under § 1983
• noting that force by arresting a person is not excessive simply because the plaintiff “feels she should not have been arrested at all” due to an alleged lack of warrant or probable cause
• “[T]o prevail on a claim against a police officer for assault and battery during arrest, a plaintiff must show that excessive force was used.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).