Troy Thompson v. Ira Mercer

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that it was the fleeing driver and not the officer “who intentionally placed himself and the public in danger by unlawfully engaging in the reckless, high-speed flight that ultimately produced the choice that [the officer] had to make.”
• applying the threat of serious harm requirement to a post-Scott deadly force claim
• “Although courts must construe evidence in light most favorable to the nonmoving party, we will not adopt a plaintiff’s characterization of the facts where unaltered evidence contradicts that account.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).