Santiago v. C.O. Campisi Shield 4592

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the Second Circuit has repeatedly ordered the district courts to bend the procedural rules for the benefit of pro se litigants”
• explaining that “an open- handed slap” is insufficient to give rise to an excessive force claim under both the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments (citation omitted)
• noting that “[t]o satisfy the objective test for excessive force, a plaintiff need only allege conduct that violates ‘contemporary standards of decency’”
• finding appointment of a guardian ad litem to an illiterate plaintiff “would be inappropriate under any standard” because he was not “incompetent in the sense contemplated by Rule 17(c
• granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants where the plaintiff satisfied the subjective component of the excessive force standard, but failed to demonstrate that the defendants’ “alleged conduct [rose] to the level of a violation of his constitutional m| rights”
• “[P]laintiff has satisfied his burden on [the subjective excessive force] element by merely pleading a scenario in which the use of force could not have been in good faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).