Lee v. Sandberg

How courts have described this case

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• finding that officer defendants had arguable probable cause to arrest the plaintiff based on a victim's falsified report of domestic violence
• holding that the officers were 27 entitled to qualified immunity where they arrested the plaintiff based on his wife’s claim that he karate-chopped her arm despite the officer not seeing any signs of physical assault such as bruising or swelling
• noting that an officer may rely on a complaint to establish probable cause and cannot be held liable for a constitutional violation simply because the complaint turns out to have been false
• finding that an arresting officer has probable cause to effect an arrest if informed of a crime by a purported victim “absent circumstances that raise doubts as to the victim’s veracity”
• “The right not to be arrested without probable cause is a clearly established right.”
• “[A]bsent circumstances that raise doubts as to the victim’s veracity[,] . . . [t]he veracity of citizen complaints who are the victims of the very crime they report to the police is assumed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).