Kotsch v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a jury could have found the use of force to be unreasonable where officers dragged a suspect out of a restaurant and struck him several times with a nightstick
• stating that the claim requires a level of emotional distress “so acute [in] nature that harmful physical consequences might not be unlikely to result”
• stating that the claim requires a level of emotional distress “so acute [in] nature that harmful physical consequences might not be unlikely to result”
• reasoning that because “officers had probable cause to arrest appellant, the arrest itself cannot form the basis for a claim of extreme or outrageous conduct”
• suggesting that qualified immunity and qualified privilege have “closely related—but theoretically different—underpinnings”
• denying summary judgment where arrestee testified that he was hit and the officer denied hitting him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).