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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Cogburn grants a police officer’s motion for summary judgment in a suit brought against him by a driver alleging he used excessive force after he pulled her over for suspected drunk driving. Although the officer applied a breathalyzer and field sobriety tests, which were positive for alcohol content, the charges of driving while impaired and reckless driving were dropped. When he tried to arrest her for drunk driving, she refused until he used an arm-bar takedown technique to get her on the ground to handcuff her. The driver claims she suffered multiple injuries as a result, including herniation of spinal discs, a black eye, and cuts and bruises all over her face, breasts, legs, and back. Although the driver invokes her Fourth and Eighth Amendment rights, they fail in the face of the officer’s state sovereign and qualified immunities.