Matthews v. Malkus

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trespass claim could not lie against defendants that did not enter property
• finding that where there was “a substantial and genuine concern for [plaintiffs] physical and mental well-being” plaintiffs commitment could not form the basis for an action for false arrest
• dismissing claims against WMC where there was \no basis for assertion of a Monell claim\
• dismissing as “not inherently defamatory” plaintiff’s defamation claim regarding defendant’s report to officials of plaintiff’s statement that she wished she were dead
• dismissing alternative claim for false light where the plaintiff alleged the defendant published a defamatory statement
• “[N]either defendant ever entered . . . [the plaintiff’s] property or home, so no claim for trespass lies against them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).