6th Circuit

Use of taser against subject who was attempting to comply with officer’s commands but was restricted by recent surgery requiring stomach staples and colostomy bag would be excessive.

“Tenants of multi-occupancy structures have a reasonable expectation of privacy in ‘common areas … not open to the general public”.

Grand jury indictments based on false information do not conclusively establish probable cause.

Policy allowing inmates to keep certain medications for self-administration did not establish deliberate indifference on its face, even though policy did not require suicide screening prior to participation.

Arresting officer could not be held liable for fifteen days of detention on warrant meant for another, where he had probable cause to believe plaintiff was person named in warrant and had nothing to do with booking or interrogation or plaintiff’s confinement after first few hours.

No liability for failure to protect kindergarten student from sexual assault by fifth grader on school bus; fifth grader’s prior misconduct did not put school on notice he posed risk of sexual assault.

Social workers violated children’s Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable seizure where they removed them from classroom and subjected them to interrogation without a warrant or consent and did not have reasonable suspicion that mother abused or neglected children; social workers violated mother’s substantive and procedural constitutional rights by constraining her ability to be alone with her children without any valid governmental interest and no procedural protections.