Less Lethal Devices and Weapons
A. Police liability case digests
1. Assault and Battery: Baton/Nightstick
2. Assault and Battery: Chemical
3. Assault and Battery: Choke Holds
4. Assault and Battery: Non-Lethal Projectiles
6. Pepper Spray (OC), Tear Gas and Chemical Agents
8. TASER®
B. Articles in the AELE Monthly Law Journal (Chronological)
1. Civil Liability for Use of Tasers, stunguns, and other electronic control devices--Part I: 4th Amendment claims for excessive force (Mar. 2007)
2. Civil Liability for Use of Tasers, stunguns, and other electronic control devices--Part II: Use against juveniles, and inadequate training claims (Apr. 2007)
3. Civil Liability for Use of Tasers, stunguns, and other electronic control devices--Part III: Use Against Detainees and Disabled or Disturbed Persons (May 2007)
4. Electronic Control Devices: Liability and Training Aspects (May 2007)
5. Legal Aspects of Training Injuries – TASER® Injuries (Sep. 2007)
6. Staff Use of Force Against Prisoners (Oct. 2008)
7. TASER® Electronic Control Devices (ECDs): An “Intermediate” Use of Force? (Feb. 2010)
8. Second Circuit Panel Allows Stun Mode to Gain Compliance of Chained Protestors (May 2011)
9. Ninth Circuit finds that the use of a TASER® constituted excessive force (Dec. 2011)