Cheryl James v. Wilkes Barre City

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• recognizing that we had previously remanded a case to the district court “for an explanation as to why it denied qualified immunity” when the court rejected a motion to dismiss without discussing qualified immunity
• observing that we may “disregard rote recitals of the elements of a cause of action, legal conclusions, and mere conclusory statements”
• explaining that a plaintiff must establish that “the arrest was made without probable cause” to prevail on a false arrest claim
• observing that we may “disregard rote recitals of the elements of a cause of action, legal conclusions, and mere conclusory statements”
• observing that we may “disregard rote recitals of the elements of a cause of action, legal conclusions, and mere conclusory statements”
• explaining that a district court’s denial of qualified immunity at the motion to dismiss stage is “a pure question of law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).