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Sixth Circuit· 6/20/2005

St. John v. Hickey

Citations

  • 411 F.3d 762
  • 2005 WL 1431400

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a jury could find that the police officers used excessive force in placing a wheechair-bound suspect in the back of their squad car
  • recognizing Walton as \holding that an excessive force claim may be based on officers' handcuffing an arrestee unnecessarily tightly\
  • noting that reviewing courts are not restricted to the precise “factual context of a prior case”
  • noting that reviewing courts are not restricted to the precise “factual context of a prior case”
  • recognizing Walton as “holding that an excessive force claim may be based on officers’ handcuffing an arrestee unnecessarily tightly”
  • noting that the suspect was “at most . . . passively resisting arrest by sitting prone”

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Judges: Daughtrey, Clay, Schwarzer

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