Harper v. City of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that \even strong reason to suspect\ criminal activity is not enough to establish probable cause
• confirming that a decision by the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department to ratify a constitutional deprivation “suffice[d] for official liability”
• noting that plaintiff in a § 1983 action “must 9 demonstrate that the defendant’s conduct was the actionable cause of the claimed injury”
• stating that “even strong reason to suspect” criminal activity is not enough to establish probable cause
• noting that a § 1983 plaintiff must demonstrate “the defendant’s conduct was the actionable cause of the claimed injury,” a showing that requires establishing “both causation-in-fact and proximate causation”
• finding the plaintiff 6 overcame the presumption where trial testimony revealed that, among other things, 7 prosecutor worked “hand-in-hand” with investigating officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).