Spencer Elden v. Nirvana L.L.C.

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• recognizing that unlike “errors in a [facially-valid] warrant,” which are subject to the control of the courts, sheriffs are responsible for holding a prisoner “in jail without a court order or written mittimus”
• explaining that “[t]he responsibility for a failure of communication between the courts and the jailhouse” falls on the jailer
• concerning, inter alia, plaintiff's nine-month detention even though all charges were dismissed
• concerning, inter alia, plaintiff's nine-month detention even though all charges were dismissed
• explaining the subtle differences between false arrest and false imprisonment claims
• a jailer does not commit an instant tort at the moment the prisoner is entitled to release; instead a jailer’s duty to his prisoner is not breached until the expiration of a reasonable time for the proper ascertainment of the authority upon which is prisoner is detained.

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