Charles v. Johnson
| Docket Number | 20-12393 |
| Decision Date | 16 November 2021 |
After plaintiff was convicted of felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer in a Georgia state court, he brought suit against the individual defendants under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging excessive force under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as state law claims
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants on all federal claims and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the pendent state claims. In regard to...
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55 cases
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Edwards v. Grubbs
...at 480.1 The Fourth Amendment forbids the use of excessive force to apprehend a suspect. See U.S. Const. amend. IV; Charles v. Johnson, 18 F.4th 686, 699 (11th Cir. 2021). The Fourth Amendment's objective reasonableness standard governs whether a law enforcement officer's use of force durin......
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Jackson v. Jones
...and quotation omitted). We have cautioned that this "rule language" sometimes "suffers from a lack of context." Charles v. Johnson, 18 F.4th 686, 696-97 (11th Cir. 2021). At bottom, our precedents show that the State (or a state official) must have had "some affirmative role" in bringing ab......
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Soto v. Chronister
...If it is not categorically unconstitutional, the court weighs the Graham factors to determine whether the amount of force was excessive. Id. As an initial matter, the Supreme Court has squarely held that a law enforcement officer has the authority to order a driver out of his vehicle during......
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One Ga., Inc. v. Carr
...of which the plaintiff complains.’ " Rayburn, at 1348 (quoting Sullivan, 526 U.S. at 51, 119 S.Ct. 977 ); see also Charles v. Johnson, 18 F.4th 686, 696 (11th Cir. 2021) ("[T]he Supreme Court has held that a ‘willful participant in joint activity with the State or its agents’ is a state act......
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