Valladares v. Cordero

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that slamming suspect into car hard enough to break suspect’s jaw was excessive force because suspect was not resisting
• concluding that shoving the plaintiff’s face into a car after the plaintiff had surrendered was not a reasonable amount of force and affirming district court’s denial of qualified immunity
• holding that a 250-pound officer was not entitled to qualified immunity when the officer gained control of a 135-pound 15-year old boy, but then picked up the boy and twice slammed the non-resisting boy onto the hood of a car and broke his jaw
• affirming denial of qualified immunity where the facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, indicated that an officer had twice slammed a subdued subject’s head into a car, breaking his jaw
• it was clearly established that an officer could not use “unnecessary, gratuitous, and disproportionate” force after the officer had the plaintiff “under full control.”
• it was clearly established that an officer could not use “unnecessary, gratuitous, and disproportionate” force after the officer had the plaintiff “under full control.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).