Clarke v. Levine

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff may bring a § 1983 claim for false imprisonment for the period he was confined while an officer issued a summons
• noting that in cases where an arrest or imprisonment is extrajudicial, the burden is on the defendant to prove the existence of probable cause
• discussing defendant’s burden of proving defense of legal justification to charge of false arrest
• setting forth elements of false arrest claim under New York state law
• “elements of the tort of malicious prosecution [include] ... the termination of the proceeding in favor of the accused”
• \elements of the tort of malicious prosecution [include] ... the termination of the proceeding in favor of the accused\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).