Renda v. International Union, UAW

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the notion that \any party who is a proximate cause of a prosecution is himself the prosecutor and may be held liable if the prosecution thereafter ensuing proves to have been commenced without probable cause\
• at common law, a person who supplies information to a prosecutor concerning persons possibly implicated in a crime is not himself the prosecutor, unless he knows the information he is supplying to be false or unless he exerts improper influence upon the prosecuting authorities
• “[A] person who supplies information to the prosecuting authorities concerning persons possibly implicated in a crime is not himself the prosecutor, unless he knows the information he is supplying to be false, or unless he exerts improper influence upon the prosecuting authorities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).