Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Carrington

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[i]t was objectively reasonable for the officers to take the steps that they did to locate an armed man who was agitated and running through a neighborhood”
• stating that “we adopt plaintiff’s version of facts, insofar as it is supported by the record”
• acknowledging that an officer’s vehicle can inflict serious bodily harm or even death
• shooting the suspect was reasonable in part because suspect had been ordered to “drop his [gun], but he did not comply with the command”
• observing that an officer’s use of deadly force is reasonable only “if a reasonable officer in Defendant’s position would have had probable cause to believe that there was a threat of serious physical harm to themselves or to others.”
• releasing a police dog on suspect who had \threatened his wife\ and officers \knew he was armed ... did not constitute excessive force.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).