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Ninth Circuit: Excessive Use of Force in Cell Extraction Defeats Qualified Immunity
by John E. Dannenberg
In an unpublished opinion, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court
of Appeals held that the excessive use of force in a cell extraction
violated a resisting prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights and that the guards
and their supervisors were not entitled to qualified immunity ...
In an unpublished opinion, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court
of Appeals held that the excessive use of force in a cell extraction
violated a resisting prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights and that the guards
and their supervisors were not entitled to qualified immunity ...
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