Jimmie Arnold Brumfield v. Don Jones, Mayor, in His Official Capacity

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the right to sue under the Civil Rights Act is personal in nature”
• acknowledging that “the standards for a determination of probable cause and for a criminal conviction markedly differ”
• “it is well established that the mere use of words without physical injury does not violate the Constitution.”
• summary judgment for defendants reversed where plaintiff alleged he was arrested for calling officers “dummies”
• summary judgment for defendants reversed where plaintiff alleged he was arrested for making annoying and critical comments to police officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).