Gibson v. Regions Financial Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a private party may only be held liable “if it is a willful participant in joint activity with the State or its agents”
• stating that a private party may only be liable under § 1983 “if it is a willful participant in joint activity with the State or its agents”
• finding “the mere furnishing of information to a law enforcement officer, even if the information is false, does not constitute joint activity with state officials.”
• “[T]the mere furnishing of information to a law enforcement officer, even if the information is false, does not constitute joint activity with state officials.”
• “A private party may be held liable under § 1983 . . . if it is a willful participant in joint activity with the State or its agents.”
• “The test of process abuse is not whether the process was originally issued with malice and without probable cause. The remedy in that situation would be an action for malicious prosecution . . . .” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).