Seilhamer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “jailers did arguably temper or attempt to limit their force by first using verbal commands”
• holding summary judgment improper when guards allegedly used pepper spray against pretrial detainee in her cell four times; slammed her to the floor; handcuffed her while guard placed knee on her back; and held her face down for two minutes
• stating in a case involving a pretrial detainee that “[w]ithin the Fifth Circuit, the law has long been clearly established that an officer’s continued use of force on a restrained and subdued subject is objectively unreasonable”
• “[T]he jailers’ continuing to apply . . . force more than two minutes after [plaintiff] was subdued would violate clearly establish law.”
• “Within the Fifth Circuit, the law has long been clearly established that an officer’s continued use of force on a restrained and subdued subject is objectively unreasonable.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).