United States Seventh Circuit

Plaintiff fails to state a claim for malicious prosecution under 42 USC 1983 where he claims that defendants arrested and detained him without probable cause but fails to allege that the officers committed some improper act after his arrest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/07/2001
• Published 02/07/2001

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and BAUER and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James H. Young,Young & Young, Indianapolis, IN, F. Harrison Green (argued), for Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Lawrence M. Hansen, Kopka, Landau & Pinkus, Indianapolis, IN, for Board of Commissioners of Union County, Indiana., Michael R. Morrow, Stephenson, Daly, Morow & Kurnik, Indianapolis, IN, for Board of Commissioners of Shelby County, Indiana., Bradley L. Williams, Ice & Miller, Indianapolis, IN, for Board of Commissioners of Franklin County, Indiana., Edward J. Liptak (argued), Miller, Carson, Boxberger & Murphy, Bloomington, IN, for City of Shelbyville., Thomas L. Tarvin, Tarvin & Alexander, Connersville, IN, for City of Connersville., Thomas R. Schultz, Schultz & Pogue, Carmel, IN, for Ronald Jordan.