Deborah Audra Skousen v. Brighton High School, Paul Rambo, a Michigan State Trooper

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police officer “cannot be held liable for malicious prosecution when he did not make the decision to prosecute [the plaintiff]”
• holding that where “[t]here is no evidence that [the officer] made or even was consulted with regard to the decision to prosecute [the plaintiff],” the officer cannot be held liable for malicious prosecution
• finding jurisdiction to review denial of qualified immunity when district court denied a motion for summary judgment without prejudice and ordered discovery
• pointing out that “[the plaintiff did not] file an affidavit, as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(f), explaining her failure or inability to file her affidavits in opposition”
• finding district court erred in dismissing motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity solely because discovery was not complete
• officer “cannot be held liable for malicious prosecution when he did not make the decision to prosecute . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).