Swinehart v. City of Ottawa

How courts have described this case

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

• Section 1983 claims governed by two-year statute of limitations for personal injury; claim determined to have arisen from statute and not barred by state' tort law remedies, but Wagher not discussed or applied
• “In analyzing whether [a law enforcement officer] used excessive force, the court must determine whether the officers’ actions were objectively reasonable in light of the facts and circumstances surrounding them.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).