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143606P.pdf 12/23/2015 Stuart Wright v. Sean Franklin
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-3606
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case -Bivens action. For the court's prior opinion in the matter,
see Wright v. United States, 545 Fed.Appx 588 (8th Cir. 2013). The
district court erred in denying the U.S. Marshals Service's motion for
qualified immunity on plaintiff's excessive force claim because it was not
firmly established in April 2009 that the use of a Tazer against a
suspected armed and dangerous felon violated the Fourth Amendment;
plaintiff's twenty-minute detention was not an unreasonable seizure under
the Fourth Amendment, and the Marshals were entitled to summary judgment
on plaintiff's claim for unreasonable seizure.