Claudine L. Boyce, Also Known as Marilyn Boyce v. Vera Fernandes and City of Peoria, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a decision to decline prosecution does not establish the absence of probable cause for an arrest
• describing the difficulty in distinguishing between the inquiries into a police officer’s probable cause for an arrest and whether that officer receives qualified immunity
• “[I]f the supplemental claim is easily shown to have no possible merit, dismissing it on the merits is a time saver for everybody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).