Rivera v. City of Yonkers

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• noting that officers’ punch to a suspect’s jaw resulted in a nasal fracture and a fractured jaw that required surgical repair and the removal of several teeth
• dismissing plaintiff's false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution claims as barred under Heck
• granting summary judgment on excessive force claim where the plaintiff fled and resisted arrest, one officer “responded with a single punch to Plaintiff’s jaw,” and two officers “engaged in a physical struggle with Plaintiff in an effort to subdue him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).