Saleem Bashir v. Rockdale County, Georgia

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• concluding that the plaintiff’s excessive force claim “fail[ed] as a matter of law” because it was “entirely derivative of, and [] subsumed within, the unlawful arrest claim”
• assuming the probable cause standard and stating “[t]he deputies must show their presence in the home was justified, either by exigent circumstances or consent.”
• reversing summary judgment for officers on the plaintiff’s state-law unlawful arrest claim because the officers did not inform the plaintiff of the crime for which he was arrested
• assuming the probable cause standard and stating “[t]he deputies must show - 44 - Case: 14-14201 Date Filed: 10/15/2015 Page: 45 of 53 their presence in the home was justified, either by exigent circumstances or consent.”
• “[T]he damages recoverable on an unlawful arrest claim include damages suffered because of the use of force in effecting the arrest.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[C]onsent cannot reasonably be inferred from Bashir’s simple act of disengaging from conversation with Sergeant Reed and walking into the house[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).