Post v. City of Fort Lauderdale

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer’s reasonable mistake in es- timating the number of patrons in a restaurant established arguable probable cause for an arrest based off a building code violation
• finding that pushing a plaintiff up against a wall and applying a chokehold to the unresisting plaintiff while affixing handcuffs was de minimis force
• during the course of an arrest, plaintiff alleged that an officer placed the unhand-cuffed plaintiff in a choke hold for about five seconds
• same, where officers placed plaintiff in a chokehold later requiring medical treatment and pushed plaintiff against a wall
• 'If case law, in factual terms, has not staked out a bright line, qualified immunity almost always protects the 27 SC-2024-0804 defendant.'
• “If case law, in factual terms, has not staked out a bright line, qualified immunity almost always protects the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).