Palm Beach County School District v. Josaphat

How courts have described this case

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• clarifying that, in order to establish the tort of false imprisonment under California law, a confinement must be without lawful privilege
• reversing, on other grounds, damages for both false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress
• noting that “[g]overnmental immunity for claims of violation of civil rights under section 1983 is not conferred expressly by stat- ute, but is based upon a judicial gloss on section 1983,” whereas “governmental immunity under California law is governed by statute”
• “Under California law, a police officer is granted statutory immunity from liability for malicious prosecution .... ”
• “The tort of false imprisonment is defined as the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another. The confinement must be ‘without lawful privilege.”
• “Under California law, a police officer may be held liable for false arrest and false 17 imprisonment, but not for malicious prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).