Schmidt v. City of Bella Villa

How courts have described this case

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

• unzipping pants to allow photograph of female detainee’s tattoo by male officer was not unreasonable
• affirming the district court’s exclusion of expert testimony when it opined on the reasonableness of a strip search procedure
• affirming the district court’s exclusion of a police-practices expert’s testimony as impermissible legal conclusion where the expert’s “report consisted of his opinions regarding the overall reasonableness of the procedures used and, as such, were not fact-based opinions”
• “Russo’s report consisted of his opinions regarding the overall reasonableness of the procedures used and, as such, were not fact-based opinions.”
• “[Expert’s] report consisted of his opinions regarding the overall reasonableness of the procedures used and, as such, were not fact-based opinions.”
• no error in district court excluding, as impermissible legal conclusions rather than fact-based opinions, expert report consisting of overall reasonableness of procedures used by officers in Fourth Amendment case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).