193243P.pdf   08/16/2021  Brittany J. Buckley  v.  Hennepin County
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-3243
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Allegations that paramedics used excessive 
   force when restraining and sedating plaintiff are analyzed under the 
   well-established objective reasonableness standard; it was not objectively 
   unreasonable for paramedics to administer sedation to an intoxicated, 
   suicidal, semi-conscious woman who needed medical intervention, and the 
   district court properly dismissed plaintiff's excessive force claims 
   against the paramedics; the paramedics' use of ketamine to sedate 
   plaintiff did not violate her substantive due process rights as their 
   conduct does not shock the conscience; the paramedics were not 
   deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious medical 
   complications; with respect to the defendant doctors, they were entitled 
   to qualified immunity on plaintiff's claims related to their oversight of 
   the County's ketamine studies because they were not personally involved in 
   the actions leading to plaintiff's emergency treatment; because plaintiff 
   failed to show that the paramedics violated her Fourth Amendment or 
   substantive due process rights, the Monell claims against the County were 
   properly dismissed. Judge Gruender, concurring in part and concurring in 
   the judgment.