Ammerman v. Newman

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the separate and distinct tort of “malicious prosecution” may expose a defendant to liability for initiating a lawsuit “maliciously and without probable cause”
• “[I]n order for a plaintiff to prevail in an action for malicious prosecution in a civil suit, there must be an arrest of the person or seizure of the property of the plaintiff, or other special injury sustained.”
• “[P]robable cause [in a malicious prosecution case] depends not on the actual state of the case in point of fact, but upon the honest belief of the person instituting [the proceeding]. It may flow from a belief that turns out to be unfounded as long as it is not unreasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).