Young v. County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the Fourth Amendment violation alleged by [plaintiff] also suffices to establish the breach of a duty of care under California law”
• holding that the use of significant force against a passive driver violated a clearly established right
• holding that significant force was used where a police officer physically struck and used pepper spray on an arrestee
• holding that the use of pepper spray is a form of \force capable of inflicting significant pain and causing serious injury\ and is an \intermediate force\
• holding that 23 pepper spray and baton blows constitute intermediate force that, “while less severe than deadly 24 force, nonetheless present a significant intrusion upon an individual’s liberty interests.”
• holding that pepper spray and baton blows were excessive uses of force against a non-compliant but non-violent subject who was seated on a curb and then prone and handcuffed on the sidewalk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).