Schulz v. Long

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of pre-seizure conduct was irrelevant to reasonableness
• holding in Fourth Amendment case that officers’ actions in tense and evolving circumstances were reasonable, even if the actions were not the most prudent in hindsight
• holding officers were entitled to qualified immunity in fatal shooting of mentally ill person who initially had committed no crime or posed any threat because the individual attacked officers with an ax
• “[O]ne becomes seized when the officer’s show of authority has the effect of stopping his movement.”
• “the reasonableness inquiry extends only to those facts known to the officer at the precise moment the officers effectuate the seizure”
• officersʹ interactions with mentally ill suspect allegedly ʺset in motion a chain of events which culminated in [plaintiff] being shotʺ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).