Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)

Citation: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Parent Document: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2018-05-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4502306/heriberto-rodriguez-v-county-of... ↗

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no good faith law enforcement purpose violates the Eighth
Amendment. See Whitley, 475 U.S. at 320–21 (1986)
(holding that whether an officer used excessive force in
violation of the Eighth Amendment “ultimately turns on
‘whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain
or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the
very purpose of causing harm.’ ” (quoting Johnson, 481 F.2d
at 1033)). Objective reasonableness may inform the Eighth
Amendment inquiry, providing evidence of good faith or of
malice. Hudson, 503 U.S. at 7. But once a jury has
determined on the basis of sufficient evidence that “prison
officials maliciously and sadistically use[d] [more than de
minimis] force to cause harm, contemporary standards of
decency,” and thus the Eighth Amendment, “always are
violated.” Id. at 9. Here, the evidence amply supported the
jury’s finding that the deputies acted maliciously and
sadistically. c. Supervisors

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