Smith v. Ball State Univ.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the forcible removal of the occupant from a vehicle during an investigatory stop was reasonable
• holding that the forcible removal of the occupant from a vehicle during an investigatory stop was reasonable
• finding that officers’ use of a “straight arm bar” technique was a reasonable amount of force to remove a nonresponsive subject from a vehicle
• finding that officers did not use excessive force by using a “straight arm bar” technique to remove an intoxicated and nonresponsive driver from a vehicle
• evaluating police actions in forcibly removing from his car a person in diabetic shock who drove onto a sidewalk, barely missing pedestrians
• finding reasonable force where officer tried to use a \knee strike\ on a diabetic driver who appeared to be struggling with other officers extracting driver from car using arm-lock

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).