Lewis v. Farmer Jack Division, Inc

How courts have described this case

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• holding legally justifiable arrest could not serve as basis for plaintiff’s false imprisonment claim even when underlying criminal charges later dismissed
• holding supermarket was not liable for false arrest of plaintiff despite store employee’s mis-identification of plaintiff as robber and subsequent dismissal of robbery charge against plaintiff — arrest was not a “false arrest” because probable cause to arrest existed
• “[F]alse arrest and false imprisonment are not separate torts, and . . . a false arrest is one way to commit false imprisonment; since an arrest involves a restraint, it always involves imprisonment.”
• an arrest by police justified by probable cause is not a false arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).