School Committee v. City of Chicopee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “probable cause is not to be confounded with actual guilt” and is “only such a state of facts and circumstances as would lead a careful and conscientious [person] to believe that the plaintiff was guilty”
• malice means “the want of sincere belief of the plaintiff’s guilt of the crime for which the prosecution was instituted”
• “Nor is it any defen[s]e that there was probable cause for part of the prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).