Ricky Outlaw v. Herb Newkirk and Cameron Mable, in His Individual Capacity

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• holding that the nonmovant, in opposing a summary judgment motion, must “set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial” which includes more than merely pleadings
• finding that swelling and bruising to the hand was a minor injury in the Eighth Amendment context
• noting that a moving party may discharge its burden by ‘'pointing out to the district court .,. that there is an absence of evidence to support the nonmoving party's case”
• finding that a relatively minor amount of force used to achieve a legitimate security objective was not the sort of force that was “repugnant to the conscience of mankind.”
• stating that “a factual dispute is ‘genuine’ for summary judgment purposes only when there is ‘sufficient evidence favoring the nonmoving party for a jury to return a verdict for that party’ ”
• noting that de minimis injuries suggested the force used was de minimis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).