Synchronized Construction Services, Inc. v. Prav Lodging, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where the probable cause determination was made before an intervening fact came to light the analysis of a malicious prosecution claim looks back to the facts as they were known at the time the determination was made
• holding malice requires “that the defendant must have commenced the criminal proceeding due to a wrong or improper motive” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• refusing to hold that a reasonable police officer would have had to believe the plaintiffs exculpatory claim that “was not obviously true on its face”
• “In order for probable cause to dissipate, the groundless nature of the charges must be made apparent by the discovery of some intervening fact.”
• “In order for probable cause to dissipate [between arrest and prosecution], the groundless nature of the charges must be made apparent by the discovery of some intervening fact.”
• “In order for probable cause to dissipate, the groundless nature of the charges must be made apparent by the discovery of some intervening fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).