Flemings v. Littles

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• finding that whether deputies acted with actual malice was a question of fact when a jury could reasonably infer the defendant-deputies arrested plaintiff without authority and “thereby deliberately intend[ed] to do a wrongful act”
• where there was evidence that deputies “arrested [the plaintiff] during the execution of [a] fi. fa. and detained him without authority, thereby deliberately intending to do a wrongful act,” jury question existed as to actual malice
• “[T]he operation of a police department, including the degree of training and supervision to be provided its officers, is a discretionary governmental function as opposed to a ministerial, proprietary, or administratively routine function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).