Michaels v. City of Vermillion

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming denial of summary judgment to defendant officer accused of having “gratuitously tased” a handcuffed, non-dangerous suspect accused of a minor crime
• declining to address officer’s qualified immunity arguments because the excessive force claim was barred by Heck
• “[T]he use of a taser ..., although nonlethal, may be excessive if it is gratuitous.”
• in a case without video, crediting plaintiff’s account, finding repeated gratuitous use of a taser against a fully handcuffed suspect who was not resisting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).