Waldron v. Adams & Reese, L.L.P.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that factually identical precedent was not needed to clearly establish a constitutional violation when the plaintiff was shot turning away from an officer, thus posing no threat
• stating that the appellate court lacks jurisdiction over “improper arguments” that raise factual disputes and that it may “simply ignore” such arguments
• denying summary judgment to an officer who was alleged to have shot a suspect with a knife \who had done nothing more than swear four or five times and was walking away\
• holding as of 2010 that “[t]he right of an individual not to be subjected to the use of deadly force by an officer who lacks probable cause to believe that the individual posed a threat of serious harm to the officer or others has long been clearly established in this circuit”
• likely unreasonable to shoot man armed with a knife when officers were eighteen to twenty feet away
• unreasonable to shoot man armed with a knife when officers were eighteen to twenty feet away, despite speed of the encounter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).