Selvy v. Morrison

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an officer’s use of a derogatory term to refer to the suspect and derogatory references about the suspect’s boyfriend did not establish actual malice
• showing of actual malice or intent to injure requires more than “poor judgment, rude behavior, and reckless disregard for the rights and safety of others”
• affirming the grant of summary judgment where officers were entitled to official immunity
• even if no probable cause existed for disorderly conduct arrest, without evidence of actual malice, immunity still applied
• “The making of a warrantless arrest for conduct occurring in an officer’s presence is a discretionary act .... ”
• “A deliberate intention to do wrong such as to constitute the actual malice necessary to overcome official immunity must be the intent to cause the harm suffered by the plaintiffs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).