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Fifth Circuit· 2/21/2001

Brown v. Lyford

Citations

  • 243 F.3d 185
  • 2001 WL 170649

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “[a] plaintiff must clear a significant hurdle to defeat qualified immunity” and that there “must not even arguably be probable cause for the search and arrest for immunity to be lost”
  • stating that the court “must reach the question of whether [the officer] was a policymaking official for [the county]” in order to assess municipal liability, regardless of the fact that the officer had qualified immunity
  • granting qualified immunity on malicious prosecution claim where arguable probable cause existed
  • “[I]f a reasonable officer could have concluded that there was probable cause upon the facts then available to him, qualified immunity will apply.”
  • “[T]here must not even arguably be probable cause for the ... arrest for immunity to be lost.”
  • “The ‘constitutional torts’ of false arrest . . . and false imprisonment . . . require a showing of no probable cause.”

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Judges: King, Higginbotham, Duhé

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46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Brown v. Lyford

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