(November 30, 2023, 11:29 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), which intervened on behalf of his insolvent homeowners insurer, in a suit alleging excessive force and civil rights violations regarding the deputy’s restraint of a restaurant customer, finding that video footage shows that the deputy’s “use of force was not clearly excessive or clearly unreasonable” in response to the customer’s “severe intoxication and threatening behavior.”...