Kosey v. City of Washington Police Pension Board

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the Supreme Court’s caution that courts should think hard before deciding a constitutional question that need not be resolved
• noting that “[t]he Supreme Court has never answered the question of whether a right may be clearly established without a Supreme Court case specifically recognizing it”
• cautioning that “courts should think hard, and then think hard again, before deciding a constitutional question that need not be resolved” (cleaned up) (quoting Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. 692, 707 (2011))
• holding it “was not clearly established in 2015” that an inmate had a right “to be free from prone restraint while . . . officers applied force to various parts of his body” for 15 minutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).