malicious prosecution

The falsely accused man, Todd Phillips, formerly of Benton, from the beginning insisted he was innocent. Before the charges were dismissed, he filed a wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution suit against the Sheriff's Office and the District Attorney's Office. Gary Wilson was added as a defendant after he ...

Her lawsuit charges the defendants conspired to violate her First Amendment rights and engaged in abuse of process and malicious prosecution. She is represented by Erie lawyer Paul Susko. The defendants in Eaton's suit are township Supervisor John Groh; former Supervisor Richard Figaski, who was ...

U.S. District Judge Mae A. D'Agostino decided Robert Butler's claim of malicious prosecution can continue, though his claims of false arrest and false imprisonment cannot be considered due to a statute of limitations. In allowing the malicious prosecution claim to stand, the judge found Butler's attorney ...

Judge Joseph DiClerico Jr. issued a March 29 order allowing Bobbett's claims of malicious prosecution, "intrusion upon seclusion" and public disclosure of private facts to proceed. The judge's order comes in response to arguments by Portsmouth and the detectives that they should have been dismissed.

Jackson Kibor now sues sons, AG for malicious prosecution ... Through his lawyer, Stanley Kagunza, Mr Kibor filed the case at the Eldoret law courts, accusing his two sons, Evans Kipkosgei Kibor and Ezekiel Kiprotich Kibor of subjecting him to malicious prosecution. CASE. Mr Kibor's sons had sued him ...

Edwards responded by filing a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Epstein. During last week's hearings on Edwards' lawsuit, Link and Rockenbach raised questions about whether Epstein had properly dropped Rothstein from his lawsuit. That is the issue Hafele rejected and the appeals court is being ...

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has ordered the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to pay more than $1 million after he ruled the agency was responsible for the malicious prosecution of a couple for alleged tax evasion, a decision experts say speaks to an underlying culture of distrust at the national tax ...

Gula filed the federal lawsuit in November 2014 alleging her constitutional rights were violated and that her fellow officers engaged in malicious prosecution when they arrested her in 2012 on false report and computer crime charges. While Gula claimed her ex-boyfriend, Eric Thomas, had attacked her and ...

HOUSTON – A former regional sales manager with National Oilwell Varco, L.P. claims the company's termination of him is a form of malicious prosecution. Israel Madrigal filed a lawsuit against NOV in the Harris County 55th District Court on Mar. 9. In the six-page suit, Madrigal explains he found a small ...

CRA slammed for 'reprehensible and malicious' prosecution of B.C. couple ... In a blistering 70-page ruling, Justice Robert Punnett ordered the CRA to pay Tony and Helen Samaroo nearly $1.7 million in damages for malicious prosecution of a deeply flawed case that ruined their reputations.

The couple then sued the Canada Revenue Agency and an “ad hoc” prosecutor who was involved in the case for malicious prosecution. In his ruling on the case, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Punnett found that the agency was liable for the actions of Keith Kendal, a senior investigator for the CRA, ...

Over the past 18 months, we have examined numerous states' approaches to insurance coverage for underlying claims of wrongful incarceration and malicious prosecution. Last summer, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, interpreting Ohio law, weighed in on this issue. Selective Ins. Co. v. RLI Ins. Co.

Breytenbach considers malicious prosecution case against State. A court acquitted Glynnis Breytenbach and her attorney Gerhard Wagenaar on charges of contravention of the National Prosecuting Authority Act. FILE: DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach pictured in court on 1 March 2016. Picture: EWN.

Law360 (March 1, 2018, 5:19 PM EST) -- An ex-Pennsylvania legislative staffer linked to a scandal over the use of taxpayer money to buy campaign-related technology is urging the Third Circuit to upend a conclusion that findings of probable cause barred malicious prosecution claims he'd been pursuing against ex-Gov.

The publisher of a now-shuttered weekly newspaper and his lawyer have filed a federal lawsuit against a Georgia judge that alleges she “sought revenge” for their requests for court spending records by pressuring prosecutors to bring charges against them. The malicious prosecution suit was filed on ...

The tort of malicious prosecution as a remedy for defendants who have been damaged by unjustifiable criminal proceedings is well established in law. In various common law jurisdictions — namely in the United Kingdom and the United States — it has been gradually expanded to include unjustifiable or ...

U.S. District Judge Travis R. McDonough has turned aside Anderson County Law Director Jay Yeager's bid for dismissal of a malicious prosecution lawsuit filed against him – and the Anderson County government he serves – by David Crowley, the county's public works director and building commissioner.

A tip to the Canada Revenue Agency resulted in a world of trouble for a British Columbia couple and charges of tax evasion, but a judge's ruling has found they did nothing wrong. The CRA, on the other hand, was condemned for “malicious prosecution” of the couple and suppressing evidence in the case.