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141583P.pdf   09/03/2015  Danelle Hollingsworth  v.  City of St. Ann
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1583
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Kelly, Circuit Judge] Civil case - Civil rights. In an action alleging the defendant police and corrections officers used excessive force when they tased plaintiff after she refused to doff her clothing and put on a jail jumpsuit, it was reasonable for officers to use some force to cause plaintiff to comply with their orders; it was not clearly established at the time of the incident that use of a taser, resulting in only de minimis injury, was an unconstitutional use of force, and the officers were entitled to qualified immunity on the claim; qualified immunity also shields the two defendant officers accused of an unreasonable failure to intervene; with respect to plaintiff's claim, the City's Taser policy was not unlawful on its face and plaintiff did not present evidence that the City was deliberately indifferent to her Fourth Amendment rights. Judge Kelly, concurring.