M.U.N. Capital, LLC v. National Hall Properties, LLC

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• explaining that probable cause makes the act of confinement privileged, defeating a common law false arrest and imprisonment claim
• explaining that under New York law, “a defendant other than a public prosecutor may be liable [for malicious prosecution] for supplying false information to the prosecutor in substantial furtherance of a criminal action against the plaintiff”
• “[S]upplying false information . . . in substantial furtherance of a criminal action against the plaintiff . . . may, depending on the circumstances, constitute the commencement” of a prosecution.
• \Probable cause consists of such facts and circumstances as would lead a reasonably prudent person in like circumstances to believe plaintiff guilty.\
• “Probable cause is a complete defense to . . . malicious prosecution claims under both § 1983 and New York law.”
• “For purposes of the privilege element of a false arrest and imprisonment claim, an act of confinement is privileged if it stems from a lawful arrest supported by probable cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).