Raysor v. Port Authority Of New York And New Jersey

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• explaining that false arrest claims against non-police defendant require an “unequivocal complaint or request to arrest”
• setting out elements of § 1983 false arrest claim and false arrest claim under New York state law, which are “substantially the same”
• dismissing § 1983 claims under Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), but permitting state law claims based on respondeat superior to proceed
• “Raysor’s litigiousness may have some slight probative value, but that value is outweighed by the substantial danger of jury bias against the chronic litigant.”
• \[A] deprivation of liberty without 'reasonable cause' is a section 1983 violation as to which the defendant bears the burden of proving reasonableness ....\ (citations omitted)
• “A warrantless arrest is presumptively unlawful under New York law, see Broughton v. State, 37 N.Y.2d 451, 457–58, 373 N.Y.S.2d 87, 94–95, 335 N.E.2d 310, 315, cert. denied, 423 U.S. 929, 96 S.Ct. 277, 46 L.Ed.2d 257 (1975

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