Joey Leon Smith v. Jeff Thornburg, Kenneth Slagle, Chris Line, Jim Claiborne, Ron Trentham, Mark Fortner, and the City of Knoxville, Tennessee

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• holding that because the court concluded that summary judgment should be granted for police officers, it need not address the liability of the City of Knoxville
• concluding that police had probable cause to arrest the suspect despite the fact that he was not indicted later by a grand jury
• holding that the result of a state court’s finding of probable cause to prosecute at a preliminary hearing precluded the parties from re-litigating the issue for purposes of a malicious prosecution claim under § 1983
• recognizing a right to be free from racially motivated verbal abuse and harassment by police officers
• finding that officers were entitled to No. 19-3410 Hicks v. Scott, et al. Page 12 qualified immunity based on their “reasonable mistake of fact in presuming that the [searched] property was public”
• finding promissory (6th Cir. 1998). fraud when real estate vendor induced vendees to purchase property by promising to make certain improvements, when I. evidence demonstrated vendor never intended to make the improvements

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