James N. Gramenos v. Jewel Companies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a security guard’s identification of the plaintiff as a shoplifter was sufficient to provide probable cause to lawfully arrest him because “[p]olice have reasonable grounds to believe a guard at a su- permarket”
• finding defendant officers did not need to conduct investigation and stating: “Probable cause can be a matter of degree, varying with both the need for prompt action and the quality of information at hand.”
• finding probable cause to arrest for retail theft based on security guard’s statements regarding a theft
• reversing summary judgment where city offered no explanation for 4-hour detention in the “dead of night” where there was evidence to suggest that they kept the arrestee locked up “out of spite”
• reversing summary judgment where city offered no explanation for 4-hour detention in the “dead of night” where there was evidence to suggest that they kept the arrestee locked up “out of spite”
• “Probable cause does not depend on the witness turning out to have been right; it’s what the police know, not whether they know the truth, that matters.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).