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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11-3758 Humphries v. Milwaukee County

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2012AP364 Caraballo v. County of Sawyer, et al.

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11-3418 Miller v. Harbaugh

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11-3009 Betker v. Gomez

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11-262 Reichle v. Howards

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11-1059, 11-1060, 11-1061, 11-1068, 11-1069 & 11-1070 Whitlock v. Brueggemann

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10-1654 Phillips v. Community Ins. Corp.

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10-1487 Paine v. Cason

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10-1018 Filarsky v. Delia

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11-2170 Fleming v. Livingston County

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11-2138 McComas v. Brickley

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10-704 Messerschmidt v. Millender

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10-2356 Gonzalez v. Village of West Milwaukee

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09-1165 Surita v. Hyde

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10-2180 Reher v. Vivo

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Civil Rights Excessive force; qualified immunity

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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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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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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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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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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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