Lewis v. Downey

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that using a taser against a plaintiff who was lying quietly on a bed is excessive force
• finding that a guard who used a Taser against an inmate was not entitled to qualified immunity
• refusing to consider, absent the parties’ raising the issue, “any safeguards the Fourteenth Amendment provides beyond those it shares with the Eighth Amendment”
• discussing elements of a failure to intervene claim
• Eighth Amendment excessive force claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).