Burg v. Gosselin

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 pre-arraignment, non-felony summons requiring no more than a later court appearance does not, by itself, constitute a deprivation of liberty
• collecting authority from the First, Third, Sixth, 26 Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits
• stating “[t]he number of appearances may bear upon whether there was a seizure”
• “A pre-arraignment, non-felony summons requiring no more than a later court appearance does not constitute a Fourth Amendment seizure.”
• “[T]he issuance of a pre-arraignment, non-felony summons requiring a later court appearance, without further restrictions, does not constitute a Fourth Amendment seizure.”
• a plaintiff asserting a claim of malicious prosecution must “show some deprivation of liberty consistent with the concept of ‘seizure’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).