Taylor v. Meacham

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an officer did not violate the Fourth Amendment because the plaintiff failed to provide any evidence showing the officer omitted any facts knowingly or with reckless disregard for the truth
• noting that official capacity suits should be treated as a suit against the entity
• stating elements of a common law claim are starting point for civil rights violations based on state law tort
• rejecting a plaintiff’s § 1983 malicious-prosecution claim, which alleged that a sheriff had made false statements in the arrest warrant, when there was “no evidence . . . [that the sheriff] knowingly” lied in the affidavit (emphasis omitted)
• “[A]n arrest warrant must be supported by probable cause to comply with the Fourth Amendment.”
• “Probable cause for an arrest warrant is established by demonstrating a substantial probability that a crime has been committed and that a specific individual committed the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).