United States v. Sussfeld

How courts have described this case

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• holding that city may properly be held liable where policy is moving force behind constitutional violation
• holding that the liability of Los Angeles for a police dog bite was separate from the officer's qualified immunity defense
• holding that “severe” force was used to apprehend plaintiff where dog was taught to seize suspects by biting and holding and plaintiff sustained “serious lacerations”
• holding that force was 18 “severe” when the dog bit the subject three times and dragged him several feet
• holding that the reasonableness of the use a police dog is for the jury where, among other things, the suspect was non-violent, completely surrounded and hiding
• holding that the use of a police dog was a “severe” use of force

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