Morfin v. City Of East Chicago

How courts have described this case

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

• grabbing plaintiff, twisting his arm, shoving, and taking him to the floor unreasonable where plaintiff was “docile and cooperative”
• grabbing plaintiff, twisting his arm, shoving, and taking him to the floor unreasonable where plaintiff was “docile and cooperative”
• rejecting a defense of qualified immunity where officers used force against a “docile and cooperative” suspect who posed no threat and was not resisting
• force was unreasonable where officers grabbed suspect who was not resisting, twisted his arm, shoved him against the wall, and took him to the floor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).