Marion v. Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting defendant’s argument that jury charge on punitive damages in malicious prosecution case led to double recovery because “a defendant cannot complain of a decision to which his conduct contributed”
• “A distinction must be taken between actually instigating or procuring the institution of criminal proceedings and merely laying information before a law enforcement official without in any way attempting to influence his judgment”
• \A distinction must be taken between actually instigating or procuring the institution of criminal proceedings and merely laying information before a law enforcement official without in any way attempting to influence his judgment.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).