Myers v. Koopman

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that false imprisonment claims lie when unreasonable seizures occur without legal process and malicious prosecution claims lie when unreasonable seizures occur with legal process
• holding that post-arrest detention “pursuant to a validly issued—if not validly supported—arrest warrant” raises a malicious prosecution claim
• explaining that “[w]hat separates” a false-imprisonment claim and a malicious-prosecution claim is “the institution of legal process”
• noting “unreasonable seizures imposed without legal process precipitate Fourth Amendment false imprisonment claims,” while “unreasonable seizures imposed with legal process precipitate Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claims”
• explaining the Fourth Amendment can support a § 1983 malicious prosecution claim after the institution of legal process too
• “A claim of malicious prosecution does not accrue until the criminal proceedings have terminated in the plaintiff’s favor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).