Phillips v. Adamson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that it was not unreasonable for a police officer to activate a SWAT team to secure the perimeter of a possible crime scene in support of other police operations
• observing that in the absence of references to the record in a party’s brief, the court “will not sift through the record to find support for” the claimant’s arguments
• “[W]e agree that the only factors that can reasonably be considered are those known to the officers prior to making the disputed decision.”
• “What may later appear to be unnecessary when reviewed from the comfort of a judge’s chambers may nonetheless be reasonable under the circumstances presented to the officer at the time.” (citing Graham, 490 U.S. at 396)
• “There [i]s no reason for [an officer] to have to wait to be shot at or even to see [an individual] raise a gun and point it at [the officer] before it would be reasonable for [the officer] . . . to shoot [the individual].”
• affirming a grant of qualified immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).