Kornegay v. New York

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• finding that “the force used against plaintiff was no more than de minimis” when the plaintiff fell to the ground after the defendant shoved him
• denying summary judgment motion where plaintiff could not say which of two officers hit him with a crutch when plaintiffs “back was to the officers both times he was struck”
• officer’s use of force in shoving inmate, who lost his balance and fell to the ground but was not physically injured, was not excessive
• “[T]his was nothing more than a push or shove, and it was certainly not of a sort repugnant to the conscience of mankind.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).