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· 4/30/2024

Lindstrom v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that a civil claim for damages based upon an officers failure to read a suspect his or her Miranda warnings is “squarely foreclosed” by the decision in Chavez
  • holding that malicious prosecution claim failed because plaintiff “present[ed] no evidence suggesting that defendants conspired with, influenced, or even participated in, [the prosecutor’s] decision to bring charges against [the plaintiff]”
  • holding that providing evidence to the prosecutor did not constitute participation by the officer
  • stating that “as a precursor to the Harlow qualified immunity analysis, a court must first determine whether any constitutional violation occurred, let alone the violation of a clearly established right”
  • reversing district court’s grant of summary judgment because nonmovant did not receive “a reasonable opportunity to conduct further discovery”
  • \ Skousen ... clearly forecloses a malicious prosecution claim based solely on officers' turning over evidence to the prosecuting authorities.\

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