{"id":53352,"date":"2022-10-14T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53352"},"modified":"2022-10-14T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:49:58","slug":"ca5-standard-of-review-for-qi-in-excessive-force-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53352","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Standard of review for QI in excessive force cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this excessive force case, the Fifth Circuit discusses qualified immunity in the heat of a confrontation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/21\/21-20544-CV0.pdf\">Henderson v. Harris County<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 28436 (5th Cir. Oct. 12, 2022). The standard of review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The hurdle is even higher when the plaintiff alleges a Fourth Amendment violation. As we have said elsewhere, in excessive-force cases requiring split-second judgments, it is &#8220;especially difficult&#8221; to overcome qualified immunity. Morrow, 917 F.3d at 875. That is because in the Fourth Amendment excessive-force context, &#8220;it is sometimes difficult for an officer to determine how the relevant legal doctrine \u2026 will apply to the factual situation the officer confronts.&#8221; Mullenix, 577 U.S. at 12 (quotation omitted); see Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 396-97, 109 S. Ct. 1865, 104 L. Ed. 2d 443 (1989) (laying out the excessive-force inquiry, which &#8220;requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case&#8221;). Thus, Henderson must demonstrate that the law is &#8220;so clearly established that\u2014in the blink of an eye, in the middle of a high-speed chase\u2014every reasonable officer would know it immediately.&#8221; Morrow, 917 F.3d at 875.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this excessive force case, the Fifth Circuit discusses qualified immunity in the heat of a confrontation. Henderson v. Harris County, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 28436 (5th Cir. Oct. 12, 2022). The standard of review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53353,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53352\/revisions\/53353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}