The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in DAVIS v. CITY OF LAS VEGAS, No. 04-17284, a civil rights appeal. The panel consisted of Stephen Reinhardt, John T. Noonan, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Once again we confront the question whether a police officer’s use of force during the arrest of an unarmed citizen was sufficiently excessive to violate the citizen’s clearlyestablished constitutional rights. Officer David Miller of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to a call from the Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino informing him . . .

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