Sixth Circuit· 6/10/2008

Leary v. Livingston County

Citations

528 F.3d 438
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 12370
2008 WL 2340231

How courts have described this case

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recognizing that the right to be from violence of other prisoners is clearly established
finding that an officer’s use of force was de minimis because the plaintiff “did not suffer any objectively verifiable injury”
hodling that plaintiff potentially had a constitutional claim against guard who told other prisoners that plaintiff was charged with raping a child
observing that “convicted prisoners may bring excessive-force claims under the Eighth Amendment” while “free citizens may bring such claims under the Fourth Amendment” (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted)
finding that when a party “does not present a developed legal argument, but instead merely sets forth the legal standard” without “suggest[ing] how such a standard is applicable to him,” the party waives the argument
holding an officer’s strike of a non-resisting pretrial detainee—“’[i]n the back of the neck’ with the side of his hand, performing ‘a karate chop kind of a deal’—was de minimis,” and thus did not violate the Constitution

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Judges: Clay, Sutton, and McKeague, Circuit Judges

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