Tag: §1983

Qualified immunity denied when subject arrested for refusing to provide name

Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) Sometime in September 2024, E’Mann Comichi’s nephew parked a Penske rental truck in

Qualified immunity denied when pepper spray discharged directly into the eye of a handcuffed, restrained, and outnumbered suspect

Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) In June 2023, Jonathan Bates Nunemaker, a Medina County deputy sheriff, was on

Officer not liable in mistaken identity shooting

Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) At approximately 5:42 a.m. on November 26, 2019, two officers of the Laredo

Video shows subject posed serious physical threat to officers

Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) In April 2023, while conducting surveillance, officers with the Houston Police Department observed

ordering the seizure of a private citizen from their home for the purpose of completing a drug test, without a warrant, probable cause, or exigent circumstances is objectively unreasonable

Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) Karl Von Derhaar worked as a civilian employee in the NOPD’s crime lab.

Not clearly established that viewing secondhand documents obtained by another officer was a search for 1983 purposes

Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) On November 1, 2020, an individual reported to the police that a debit