Marshall v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that it is the defendant’s burden to show legal justification for an arrest
• defining battery as “an intentional, unpermitted, harmful or offensive contact with his person or something attached to it”
• finding viable false arrest claim after concluding plaintiff did not voluntarily accompany officers to police station where the officers failed to inform him that he had a right not to travel to the station
• trial court did not abuse discretion in permitting District to withdraw prior admission by default, given absence of prejudice to opposing party
• “An unlawful deprivation of freedom of locomotion for any amount of time, by actual force or a threat of force, is sufficient.”
• “Confinement, no matter how brief, suffices to establish a prima facie case of false arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).