Peterson Novelties, Inc v. City of Berkley

How courts have described this case

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• providing that a party may not simply announce his or her position without also citing to adequate factual and legal support
• explaining that lack of probable cause is an element of a claim for false arrest/false imprisonment under Michigan law
• listing -4- Case No. 20-1659, Codden v. Manistee Area Pub. Schs. Bd. of Educ. examples of relationships that establish mutuality
• collecting cases and dismissing unlawful imprisonment claim because arrest was supported by probable cause
• finding privity because the plaintiff in the second case was the owner of the company that was a plaintiff in the first case and both suits related to the company’s rights and liabilities
• describing the role of a privy in the context of res judicata

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).