Marshall C. Spiegel v. Daniel M. Rabinovitz

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting the possibility of a claim based on the first amendment if the prosecution is used to punish speech
• “Under Illinois law, the State’s Attorney ... is vested with exclusive discretion in the initiation and management of a criminal prosecution.”
• “[A] prosecutor is entitled to absolute immunity for his malicious prosecution of someone whom he lacked probable cause to indict.”
• “a prosecutor is entitled to absolute immunity for his malicious prosecution of someone whom he lacked probable cause to indict.”
• “Section 1983 is not itself a font for substantive rights; instead it acts as an instrument for vindicating federal rights conferred elsewhere.”
• Section 1983 is not a source of substantive rights itself, but an instrument through which other rights can be vindicated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).