Medical Data Systems, Inc. v. Coastal Insurance Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• defining the probable cause inquiry as “whether, on balance, the facts known to the officer at the time of the arrest support probable cause” (emphasis in original)
• “A federal constitutional tort of false arrest— and thus an unlawful arrest under § 1983—occurs when there is detention without probable cause and without legal process (i.e., without a valid warrant).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).