Police may have violated a woman’s civil rights when they shot her twice with a Taser for allegedly interfering with the arrest of her son, the 7th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
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Read More »Police may have violated a woman’s civil rights when they shot her twice with a Taser for allegedly interfering with the arrest of her son, the 7th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
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Read More »11-3758 Humphries v. Milwaukee County
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Read More »2012AP364 Caraballo v. County of Sawyer, et al.
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Read More »11-3418 Miller v. Harbaugh
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Read More »11-3009 Betker v. Gomez
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Read More »11-262 Reichle v. Howards
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Read More »11-1059, 11-1060, 11-1061, 11-1068, 11-1069 & 11-1070 Whitlock v. Brueggemann
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Read More »10-1654 Phillips v. Community Ins. Corp.
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Read More »10-1487 Paine v. Cason
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Read More »10-1018 Filarsky v. Delia
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Read More »11-2170 Fleming v. Livingston County
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Read More »11-2138 McComas v. Brickley
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Read More »10-704 Messerschmidt v. Millender
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Read More »10-2356 Gonzalez v. Village of West Milwaukee
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Read More »09-1165 Surita v. Hyde
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Read More »10-2180 Reher v. Vivo
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Read More »Civil Rights Excessive force; qualified immunity
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Read More »Civil Rights Qualified immunity; appeal The Court may review a lower court’s constitutional ruling at the behest of government officials who have won final judgment on qualified immunity grounds. This Article III standard often will be met when immunized officials ...
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Read More »Civil Rights First Amendment; qualified immunity Where a city’s police arrested marchers en masse despite waiving the permit requirement, the city is not entitled to qualified immunity. “The Chicago police likewise have an unwritten policy of waiving the permit requirement ...
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Read More »Civil Rights Qualified immunity; waiver Defendants do not waive a qualified immunity defense by only treating the issue in a cursory fashion. “The district court erred by ruling that the defendants waived their qualified immunity argument as to the First ...
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Read More »Civil Rights Qualified immunity; summary judgment; appeal A party may not appeal a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity after a district court has conducted a full trial on the merits. A qualified immunity plea, not upheld at ...
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Read More »Civil Rights Qualified immunity Where officers arrested a meter reader, even though she had all the indicia of a meter reader performing her job, on suspicion of casing homes to commit burglary, the officers were properly denied qualified immunity. “The ...
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