· 10/7/2011
In re Lavalle W.
Citations
- 88 A.D.3d 1300
- 930 N.Y.2d 387
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that a defendant must confine, attempt to confine, or, in the context of police arrests, attempt to instigate the arrest
- to make out a false arrest claim, “the plaintiff[] must show that these defendants instigated his arrest, thereby making the police [their] agents in accomplishing their intent to confine the plaintiff”
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