Leary v. Livingston County

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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).