The original title is: > Appeals Court: Permanently Injuring A 13-Year-Old Because He Wouldn’t Take His Hand Out Of His Pockets Isn’t A Rights Violation While

The original title is: > Appeals Court: Permanently Injuring A 13-Year-Old Because He Wouldn’t Take His Hand Out Of His Pockets Isn’t A Rights Violation While unpublished decisions [1] are the norm rather than the exception [2], I was surprised that the court chose to make this particular case unpublished: > the Eleventh Circuit Appeals both (1) declined to establish this as a rights violation going forward and (2) issued this as an unpublished decision to prevent it from being used to establish similar rights violations in the future. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-publication_of_legal_opinions_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-publication_of_legal_opini... [2] https://www.cornelllawreview.org/2022/04/16/is-unpublished-unequal-an-empirical-examination-of-the-87-nonpublication-rate-in-federal-appeals/ https://www.cornelllawreview.org/2022/04/16/is-unpublished-u...