Orsatti v. New Jersey State Police

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “the Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from arresting a citizen except upon probable cause”
• noting that false arrest claims vindicate the right to be free from arrest except on probable cause
• explaining that mere allegations, conclusions, conjecture, and speculation are not sufficient to defeat summary judgment
• explaining that mere allegations, conclusions, conjecture, and speculation are not sufficient to defeat summary judgment
• noting that “the Supreme Court has recognized that it is inevitable that law enforcement officers will in some cases reasonably but mistakenly conclude that probable cause to make an arrest is present”
• stating that the Court must apply a “standard of objective reasonableness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).