081640P.pdf   07/22/2009  Sandra Brown  v.  Rob Zarrett, etc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1640
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Riley and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. Given the circumstances surrounding plaintiff's
   Tasering and arrest, the district court did not err in concluding that
   defendant Zarrett's use of force was not objectively reasonable as a
   matter of law; the law was sufficiently clear to inform a reasonable
   police officer that it was unlawful to Taser a nonviolent, suspected
   misdemeanant who was not fleeing or resisting arrest, who posed little to
   no threat to anyone's safety and whose only noncompliance with officer
   commands was to disobey orders to end her phone call to a 911operator;
   as a result, the district court did not err in denying the defendants'
   motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity; accepting
   plaintiff's version of events, a jury could find defendant is not entitled
   to official immunity because he willfully violated plaintiff's right to be
   free from excessive force.