Mike Callahan

Full list of Mike Callahan results

• Court of Appeals affirms city not liable for excessive force used by off-duty officers who consumed alcohol

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  Federal judge overturns $1.2M civil rights jury verdict against City of Indianapolis

• Ohio Supreme Court suppresses public employee statements taken in violation of the Fifth Amendment

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  The Court ruled that the employee statements were compelled by threat of job loss and inadmissible in a criminal proceeding

• Washington state adds 'racial and ethnic' bias considerations to its state constitutional test for whether police have 'seized' a person

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  Court holds requesting personal identification in a public location, without threats, overt coercion, or a display of force, was a seizure requiring reasonable suspicion

• Court: Officer who shot suspect in the back did not violate clearly established law, entitled to qualified immunity

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  The officer, believing the suspect was armed and that a fellow officer was in danger, shot the suspect from behind

• Officers denied qualified immunity for illegally detaining murder victim’s family members

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  Officers transported family members to the police station without consent or probable cause for interview while victim died at the hospital

• Federal Appeals Court rules gun discovery violates Fourth Amendment because traffic stop was unlawfully extended

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  Philadelphia officers had removed a vehicle’s passenger for safety concerns during a traffic stop and found a loaded pistol

• Eighth Circuit denies qualified immunity for ‘on scene’ supervisor and officers who fired bean bags during pipeline protest

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  Court refused to dismiss county liability allegation that sheriff tacitly authorized pattern of unlawful bean bag deployment

• Eighth Circuit rejects qualified immunity for police supervisory and subordinate officers in crowd control operation

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  Jury trial required to determine liability for mass arrest, alleged excessive force and supervisory indifference

• A narrow judicial win for the blue in blue Massachusetts

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  The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules a police pat frisk of an armed gang member lawful

• Gun calls and investigative detention

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  Eighth Circuit affirms police detention including handcuffing and pointing guns at suspects

• Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals exonerates Utah officer in shooting of unarmed man

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  Not mentioned by the court, but the officer’s immediate shooting response justified because he was facing the “deadly reactionary gap”

• 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?

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