Ny Chau v. Chisolm

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no constitutional violation occurred when plaintiff “complained only once, and on that occasion, Sheriff Kiefer immediately offered to remove the handcuffs if Burchett would behave”
• recognizing that “right to be free from ‘excessively forceful handcuffing’ is a clearly established right for qualified immunity purposes”
• recognizing that the “right to be free from ‘excessively forceful handcuffing’ is a clearly established right for qualified immunity purposes”
• observing that an allegation of assault is not necessary to sustain an excessive force claim
• holding that the officers’ use of force to handcuff a suspect was necessary because the suspect “acknowledged that he ‘twisted and turned some’ when they tried to handcuff him and that the officers had difficulty restraining him”
• holding that the officers’ use of force to handcuff a suspect was necessary because the suspect “acknowledged that he ‘twisted and turned some’ when they tried to handcuff him and that the officers had difficulty restraining him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).