That's how one California prisoner's case failed before the District Court for the Eastern District of California.
Cases against corrections officers run into another set of challenges under the doctrine of "qualified immunity."
In prisons, BI has found, qualified immunity has also protected corrections officers who have been accused of excessive force.
After losing at the district court level, McCoy appealed and got a rare finding from the judges of the 5th Circuit.
AdvertisementOver the same five years in BI's sample, no federal judge found for the plaintiff in a single excessive-force claim filed by a California prisoner.
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