Thomas Mahoney v. Russell Kesery

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that a required court appearance could be characterized as a constitutional tort only when combined with “traumatic” or “dramatic” acts like being subjected to a search, handcuffing, fingerprint- ing, or being photographed
• declining to decide whether view of en banc Ninth Circuit in Cooper \is sound\
• \Fifth Amendment does not forbid the forcible extraction of information but only the use of information so extracted as evidence in a criminal case\ (citation omitted)
• “ Fifth Amendment does not forbid the forcible extraction of information but only the use of information so extracted as evidence in a criminal case” (cita­ tion omitted)
• “[I]f a reasonable officer would not have believed the person had committed a crime, then the officer, whatever he did or did not believe, is acting contrary to clearly established law and therefore has no immunity.”
• “[P]robable cause depends not on the facts as an omniscient observer would perceive them but on the facts as they would have appeared to a reasonable person in the position of the arresting officer—seeing what he saw, hearing what he heard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).