Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Paul

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding jury could find publication of defamatory statements based on contemporaneous combination of false accusation of thievery alongside accosting plaintiff and frisking him
• noting that the two are “torts that apparently differ only in terminology”
• “the test whether legal justification existed in a particular case has been judged by the principles applicable to the law of arrest”
• “probable cause is not a defense to an action for false imprisonment but legal justification is”
• shopkeeper’s authority to arrest or detain is limited to the authority of a private citizen
• “The necessary elements of a case for false imprisonment are a deprivation of the liberty of another without his consent and without legal justification.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).