I’ve been working almost non-stop for the last 18 hours, and its 3 a.m. (so pardon any typo’s), so I’m not about to plow through the 82-pages of opinions in Schmidlin v. City of Palo Alto, case no. H026841 (6th Dist. Dec. 4, 2007). But I’m not too sleepy to browse through it, and I happened upon the “bloggable” portion. Or at least one of them. Its a case brought by a plaintiff who alleges various constitutional violations against city cops. The jury finds that the cops used excessive force, but did not unlawfully arrest the plaintiff or fabricate police reports. Both sides appealed. Issue 1: Sufficent evidence of excessive…