Tanberg v. Sholtis

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that excessive force inquiry requires that officer use reasonable, not optimal, force
• “That an arrest violated police department procedures does not make it more or less likely that the arrest implicates the Fourth Amendment[.]”
• “Under this objective standard, evidence tending to show Officer Sholtis’s subjective state of mind is irrelevant.”
• a violation of a SOP was irrelevant to determining whether an arrest violated the reasonableness requirement of the Fourth Amendment
• \violation of police regulations is insufficient to ground a § 1983 action for excessive force\
• “Even if [the defendant officer] violated the SOPs, this violation would not create a violation of a clearly established constitutional right ex nihilo.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).