No lawyer wants to find themselves being sued for malicious prosecution simply for doing their job, but Latham & Watkins – accused of bringing specious trade secrets claims against a client’s former employees – says they’re protected because their clients still won an important ruling, even though they ultimately lost and were later found to have brought their case in bad faith.
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An Illinois man claims his life was ruined by Chicago police when officers, despite having no evidence he was guilty, charged him with a felony while he was a high school student with a full-ride scholarship to Cal-Berkeley.
Read moreHis life turned upside down by now-withdrawn espionage charges, a Temple University physics professor lobbed a federal complaint against the FBI agent he says fabricated the entire controversy.
Read moreTaking aim at a local police chief embroiled in a department-harassment scandal, a Pennsylvania grandmother claims in a federal complaint that the chief’s abuse of his office landed her behind bars.
Read moreA Texas teenager called police on his dad for scolding him about his long phone conversations and two officers used a stun gun on the father until he fell face-first into a wall and then arrested him, the man claims in a civil-rights lawsuit.
Read moreAn Illinois mother sued two Chicago police officers, claiming they beat and arrested her without cause at a Donald Trump protest in front of her 13-year-old daughter.
Read moreNew Jersey prosecutors could be liable, a federal judge ruled, for bringing charges against a high school vice principal who failed to report a student-teacher sexual liaison.
Read moreNow-defunct oil company Oceanografia says Citibank used it as a scapegoat to deflect inquiries into multi-million dollar fraud at Citibank’s Mexican subsidiary, Banamex.
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A black man shot fives times by Chicago police officers after he angered them by calling 911 sued the city for excessive force, claiming the officers weren’t disciplined until months after a police oversight board found his shooting unjustified.
Read moreAn Illinois man who spent 30 years behind bars and has since been pardoned sued Peoria and a group of police officers Wednesday, claiming they coerced a double-murder confession out of him decades ago.
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Despite their assertion of immunity, a federal judge ruled Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and a sheriff’s major are still on the hook in the three malicious-prosecution lawsuits brought by officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
Read moreTwo New York City police sergeants and a Marine Corps veteran accused Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance of sweeping them up in a dragnet of more than 100 officers, falsely charging them with Social Security fraud.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit involving two Northern California district attorneys – ending at long last an often tawdry five-year legal fight between the two men.
Read moreA high school referee claims Texas prosecutors maliciously prosecuted him for having a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old male student, knowing his independent contractor status gave them little chance of convicting him.
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