POSTED: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 1:58 pm

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

While the Taser is probably the most common culprit when it comes to excessive force lawsuits involving less-than-lethal devices, last week the 9th Circuit gave the go ahead to a college student’s §1983 claim against police officers who shot pepperballs to disperse a crowd attending a campus party.