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USSERY v. MANSFIELD

No. 14-7096.

786 F.3d 332 (2015)

Sammy USSERY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sgt. MANSFIELD; James Dunlow; Timothy Ruffin, Defendants-Appellants, and Dustin Wilkins; Shelton Hardison; Stacy Hoggard; Lillian Gilliam; Sheri Williams, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 19, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kimberly D. Grande, North Carolina Department Of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants. David Alexander Strauss, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Roy Cooper, North Carolina Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Senior Judge DAVIS joined.

Sammy Ussery brings this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, maintaining that a team of correctional officers employed excessive force when they forcibly extracted him from his prison cell. The district court denied the officers' motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. The officers...

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