Kingsley v. Hendrickson

Kingsley v. Hendrickson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 27, 2015 Decided June 22, 2015
Full case name	Michael B. Kingsley, Petitioner v. Stan Hendrickson, et al.
Docket no.	14-6368
Citations	576 U.S. 389 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2466; 192 L. Ed. 2d 416
Related cases	Bell v. Wolfish
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Kingsley v. Josvai, 10-cv-832-bbc (W.D. Wis 2011); Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 744 F.3d 443 (7th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 1039 (2015).
Subsequent	On remand, 801 F.3d 828 (7th Cir. 2015).
Holding
A pretrial detainee's claim of the use of excessive force by a police officer must prove only that the force was objectively unreasonable, not necessarily prove that the officer thought the force was excessive. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Thomas
Dissent	Alito
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that a pretrial detainee must prove only that force used by police is excessive according to an objective standard, not that a police officer was subjectively aware that the force used was unreasonable.