Sundeen v. Kroger

How courts have described this case

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• stating that conclusory allegations are insufficient to create a fact issue in a summary-judgment situation
• affirming summary judgment where plaintiff offered no proof of coercive actions or efforts to extort anything from him in abuse-of-process case against grocery store and its security officer
• affirming summary judgment where plaintiff offered no proof of coercive actions or efforts to extort anything from him in abuse-of-process case against grocery store and its security officer
• “[I]t is the purpose for which the process is used, once issued, that is important in reaching a conclusion.”
• plaintiffs conviction in state district court, even'though later reversed when prosecutor nolle prossed charges on appeal to circuit court, was conclusive proof of existence of probable cause to initiate criminal proceedings
• “In the context of a malicious prosecution action, the existence of probable cause is to be determined by the facts and circumstances surrounding the commencement and continuation of the legal proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).