Logan Houle v. Marion, OH Police Department

Type

Opinion

Author

Raymond M. Kethledge

Filed

March 27, 2026

Case

Logan Houle v. Marion, OH Police Department

Case status

Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 26a0153n.06 No. 25-3586 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Mar 27, 2026 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) LOGAN HOULE, ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE ) NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MARION, OHIO POLICE DEPARTMENT, et al., ) OHIO Defendants-Appellees. ) ) OPINION Before: BOGGS, SILER, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges. KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. Logan Houle attempted to flee the scene of a police investigation. An officer tackled Houle to handcuff him. During the struggle, the officer applied a chokehold, and Houle reached for the officer’s gun. Officers ultimately subdued him. Houle later brought an excessive-force suit against the City of Marion, Ohio and the officers who arrested him. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants on qualified-immunity grounds. We affirm in part and reverse in part. I. In May 2021, officers responded to a report that a man with a knife was threatening to kill people at an apartment. Officer Dana Jagger arrived first on the scene. She knocked on the apartment’s door, and Houle opened it. Jagger told him about the emergency call and…

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