Marschall v. City of Carson

How courts have described this case

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• noting that to establish false imprisonment, a plaintiff must prove that he was “restrained of his liberty under the probable imminence of force without any legal cause or justification therefore”
• stating that, in general, affirmative defense of justification not pleaded affirmatively was waived
• stating that false arrest “is an integral part” of a claim of false imprisonment
• false imprisonment actionable only if defendant’s acts were done “without any legal cause or justification therefore”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).