Legal Opinion
Chambers v. Pennycook
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2011No. 09-2195PublishedCited by 478 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Kevin Chambers brought this action against three law enforcement officers pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleged that the officers violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment by using excessive force against him during and shortly after his arrest. The district court 1 concluded that Chambers’s failure to show greater than de minimis injury was fatal to his claim and dismissed the complaint. We now conclude that a citizen may prove an unreasonable seizure based on an excessive use of force without necessarily showing more than de minimis injury, but we…
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