Eastern Gulf Oil Co. v. Lovelace

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• granting summary judgment for defendants on failure to intervene claim where underlying claims for false arrest and malicious prosecution failed
• finding that presumption of probable cause created by indictment was not defeated when the “[p]laintiff merely surmises there was bad faith” and “has neither sought nor produced the grand jury minutes in this matter precluding any further evaluation of what occurred before the grand jury”
• “Plaintiff’s failure to intervene claim fails as a matter of law, because there is no underlying constitutional violation.”
• “[W]here a grand jury indicts on some, but not all charges, the presumption [of probable cause] attaches only to those charges in the indictment.”
• presumption unrebutted where the “[p]laintiff merely surmises there was bad faith . . . [and] has neither sought nor produced the grand jury minutes in this matter precluding any further evaluation of what occurred before the grand jury”

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