Portera v. HSBC USA, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “what’s clearly established is that it ‘is reasonable, and therefore constitutionally permissible, for an officer to use deadly force when he has probable cause to believe that his own life is in peril’”
• stating that though the “mere presence of a gun or other weapon” may not justify the exercise of deadly force, “when a suspect’s gun is available for ready use— even when the suspect has not drawn his gun—an officer is not required to wait and hope for the best”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).