Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Deshotel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding: a district attorney’s determination that there is an “adequate civil remedy” “constitutes a policy-based reason for disapproval of [the] charges”
• “The district attorney’s decision not to prosecute a criminal complaint . . . carries a presumption of good faith and soundness . . . . The complainant must create a record that demonstrates the contrary.”
• “[I]t is presumed that the district attorney act[s] in good faith[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).