Yerushalmi v. Monroe

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that false statements made by a civilian defendant did not vitiate probable cause because “probable cause existed for plaintiffs arrest without any reference to the alleged statements”
• granting summary judgment for defendant where he provided information to police and signed complaint but where no evidence exists that the police officer’s determination to arrest plaintiff rested on defendant’s statements
• providing information and signing a criminal complaint are insufficient to support a claim
• \[A] defendant may be said to have initiated a criminal proceeding by providing false evidence to the police\ which they later relied on in making an arrest.
• “[I]t is true that a defendant may be said to have initiated a criminal proceeding by providing false evidence to the police or withholding evidence that might affect the determination by the police to make an arrest ....”
• “[I]t is true 7 that a defendant may be said to have initiated a criminal proceeding by providing false evidence 8 to the police or withholding evidence that might affect the determination by the police to make 9 an arrest . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).