Thursday, September 26, 2024
USSC on §1983 Malicious Prosecution Claim
Recently, the Court weighed in on a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under section 1983:
Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, 602 U.S. __, __, 144 S. Ct. 1745, 1751, 219 L. Ed. 2d 262, 268 (2024) (“[T]he bringing of one valid charge in a criminal proceeding should not categorically preclude a claim” when another charge is brought without probable cause and it “causes a detention either to start or to continue”).
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/2024/09/ussc-on-1983-malicious-prosecution-claim.html