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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

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