Brown v. Lyford

How courts have described this case

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• 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.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).