Nowak v. Board of Zoning Appeals

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the actions of an officer who entered non-threatening detainee’s cell “out of frustration with his repeated verbal outbursts and demands for medical treatment,” slapped him, tased him, and punched him were not objectively reasonable
• applying the objective reasonableness standard to pretrial detainee’s excessive force claims and deliberate indifference standard to claim for denial of medical care
• finding a clearly established constitutional right despite the intervening holding of Kingsley
• “‘[W]e consider not the extent of the injury inflicted but whether an officer subjects a detainee to gratuitous violence.’”
• detainee’s denial-of medical-care claim evaluated under deliberate-indifference standard
• detainee’s denial-of medical-care claim evaluated under deliberate-indifference standard

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