Matter of Hackett

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “investigating and prosecuting violations of the law “clearly fall[s] within the scope of official duties of a law enforcement officer”
• holding that the district court correctly denied qualified immunity where the plaintiff and the officer had “completely different versions” of the incident and the plaintiff “unambiguously denie[d]” committing the crime
• stating that “[f]actual proof of the existence of a § 1983 conspiracy may be based on circumstantial evidence”
• noting that Alabama law for malicious prosecution is the same except that it requires only a “judicial proceeding” not a “criminal prosecution”
• holding a corporation’s employees, acting as agents of the corporation, cannot conspire among themselves or with the corporation
• explaining that under Alabama law, intentional acts like fabricating evidence can satisfy the malice element

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).