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Brooks v. City of Seattle, No. 08-35526 (9th Cir.) (599 F.3d 1018) (March 26, 2010) (Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall)

Loaded on April 5, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists April 05, 2010
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Here a sharply divided panel held that three Seattle police officers “acted reasonably” when they tasered a pregnant woman three separate times because she refused s sign a traffic citation; and that they were therefore entitled to immunity.

One need only read the opening paragraph of Judge Marsha Berzon’s blistering ...

 

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