TYLER STOCKLEY v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• finding plaintiff stated a claim for a substantive due process violation where corrections officers’ brutal and habitual beatings of prisoner shocked the conscience
• characterizing Rochin as standing for “the limited principle that government action, even if taken pursuant to legitimate objectives such as evidence gathering, may not proceed via means that shock the conscience.” (quotation and alteration omitted)
• “The application of force ‘maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm,’ can serve no legitimate governmental objective.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).