Petze v. Street

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• explaining that a claim for unlawful detention under the Fourth Amendment requires a seizure of the plaintiff pursuant to legal process unsupported by probable cause
• Willingness to bifurcate comes from recognition that “claims of municipal liability require an extensive amount of work on the part of plaintiff’s attorneys and experts, and an extraordinary amount of money must be spent in order to prepare and prove them.”
• “seizure of the plaintiff pursuant to legal process unsupported by probable cause” is an element to an unlawful pretrial detention claim
• unlawful detention requires detention pursuant to legal process unsupported by probable cause
• “[Plaintiff’s] complaint does not limit any extraordinarily large judgment to his Monell claim; instead, it is entirely possible that [he] could be awarded a large judgment against the Officers, which presumably send the same message to the City and police department.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).