1.   A Phoenix area pharmacist filed suit last fall seeking to bar the routine use of neck holds by police.

2.   Activists had called for banning the carotid neck hold.

3.   Espindola tried unsuccessfully to place Mallet in a neck hold while other officers grabbed his arms and stood on his legs.

4.   Instead of putting things into the proper perspective, one of the officers put Mallet into a neck hold.

5.   It also requests an injunction barring neck holds in most situations and barring arrests for trespassing at the airport without a lawful reason.

6.   The carotid neck hold is designed to cut off oxygen to the brain.

7.   The group also may seek a court order to reclassify the neck hold.

8.   Richardson used a neck hold to subdue Finley, who later died.