Fletcher v. Burkhalter

How courts have described this case

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• concluding there was sufficient evidence of causation where officer’s alleged misrepresentations were passed on not only to the prosecutor, but also in a probable cause affidavit submitted to the court
• stating malice in § 1983 malicious prosecution claims “requires intentional or reckless disregard of the truth”
• analyzing, as an “abstract legal issue . . . whether the acts of the district attorney or the judge can or must be considered superseding causes of . . . [plaintiff]’s injuries”
• upholding denial of qualified immunity to officer who attested to probable cause that the plaintiff fraudulently sold land although the database search the officer conducted indicated the complaining witness had identified a different individual

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).