Mike Callahan

Full list of Mike Callahan results

• Unconstitutional TASER deployment results in huge damages award against offending officer

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  Eighth Circuit rejects officer’s qualified immunity defense and finds continuous TASER deployment unnecessary, excessive and a violation of clearly established law

• Failure to train ruling: Officer's alleged reckless driving in non-emergency situation results in civilian fatality

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  Seventh Circuit reverses lower court dismissal of civil rights lawsuit and reinstates officer and city as proper defendants

• Federal Appeals Court chooses police dashcam video over court rule favoring plaintiff in officer shooting lawsuit

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  Court also rejects lower court use of freeze-frame “screen shots,” ruling that it amounts to “20/20 hindsight and second-guessing” of officer split-second decision to shoot

• Fifth Circuit declares officer’s first shot justified, but second and third shots problematical in fatal OIS

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  Did incident circumstances, including the concept of inattentional blindness, result in an officer’s inability to see the suspect drop his gun?

• Qualified immunity for LEOs is under assault: Will the doctrine survive the attack?

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  If H.R. 1280 becomes law, the defense of qualified immunity for law enforcement officers will be abolished

• Seventh Circuit reverses a $44 million civil rights verdict against City of Chicago

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  Court rules that Chicago police officer acted as private citizen when shooting and seriously wounding a friend

• Fourth Circuit: Va. county ordinance compelling detained person to show ID upon officer request unconstitutional

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  Compelled identify statutes valid only when officers detain a suspect based upon reasonable suspicion

• Fourth Circuit decision on the constitutional requirements for a lawful entry

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  Case reviews nonconsensual police entry into a private residence to arrest an occupant

• The incremental erosion of the Graham v. Connor constitutional use of force standard

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  The Rollice case is the latest in a series of questionable decisions involving police shootings where lower courts examine officer pre-shooting conduct

• Court approves officers’ use of force to restrain a possibly mentally ill subject who died during the struggle

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  Court ruled the officers had probable cause to detain the subject for his own safety and the legal power to use reasonable force to accomplish that detention

• Massachusetts Supreme Court issues a potentially career-ending decision

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  The court ordered the disclosure of secret immunized officer grand jury testimony to defense lawyers and police chiefs

• Federal appellate court approves a split-second police shooting of an armed drug dealer

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  The decision in this case demonstrates the incredible value to American law enforcement of Graham v. Connor

• Ninth Circuit approves use of deadly force upon extremely reckless driver

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  This case demonstrates what the Supreme Court envisioned when creating the qualified immunity defense

• Analysis: What cops need to know about the changes to qualified immunity in Colorado

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  The legislation creates a $25,000 personal liability ceiling for officers found liable for state constitutional violations

• The attack on the police officer’s qualified immunity defense

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  Abolishing this defense will leave officers defenseless against a dramatic increase in excessive force lawsuits

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