Maris Herzog v. Village of Winnetka, Illinois, and Winnetka Police Officers Powell and Colleran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the officer used excessive force by shoving an arrestee on the ground despite a lack of resistance or evidence of criminal activity
• concluding that shoving the plaintiff to the ground, cracking her tooth with a forced breath-screening device, waiting over an hour to loosen too-tight handcuffs was excessive force
• refusing to loosen plaintiffs chafing handcuffs constitutes excessive force in case where complainant had violated no law, was arrested without probable cause and did not resist
• collecting cases and reciting that a refusal to loosen a plaintiffs chafing handcuffs is an instance of excessive force
• refusing to loosen plaintiff’s chafing handcuffs constitutes excessive force in case where complainant had violated no law, was arrested without probable cause and did not resist
• characterizing “refus[al] to loosen the plaintiff’s chafing handcuffs” as an “instance[] of excessive force”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).