Payne, William Keith

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming grant of summary judgment in officer’s favor in an excessive force case when plaintiff failed to cite Supreme Court or Fifth Circuit precedent on applicable, “clearly established” law
• “It is the plaintiff’s burden to find a case in his favor that does not define the law at a high level of generality.”
• “It is the plaintiff's burden to find a case in his favor that does not define the law at a ‘high level of generality.””
• “In the district court, Plaintiff . . . cited nary a pre-existing or precedential case. That alone dooms his case here.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).