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Seventh Circuit· 8/12/2010

McAllister v. Price

Citations

  • 615 F.3d 877
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 16685
  • 2010 WL 3169326

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 plaintiff’s injury may be evidence of the degree and reasonableness of force used but is not necessary to establish a constitutional violation
  • finding that the plaintiff’s injuries may be relevant in determining whether a use of force was reasonable
  • finding that plaintiff's testimony about his subjective symptoms corroborated his claim that he was injured by the officer's take-down, not earlier car accidents
  • finding that a “plaintiff may rely on lay testimony when causation is within the understanding of a lay person.”
  • noting it is a § 1983 plaintiff's burden to establish the underlying constitutional deprivation
  • noting it is a § 1983 plaintiff’s burden to establish the underlying constitutional depriva‐ tion

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Judges: Bauer, Flaum, Tinder

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