Lynn Brubaker v. Thomas King, Individually and in His Capacity as Special Agent for the United States Bureau of Customs

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• § 1983 standard of reasonableness imposed lesser burden on arresting officers than did the criminal standard of probable cause
• Senior United States Circuit Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation
• “The test . . . under § 1983 is . . . whether the officer believed in good faith that the arrest was made with probable cause and whether that belief was reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).