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Wallace v. Kato, No. 05-1240 (U.S. Supreme Court) (549 U.S. 384; 127 S.Ct. 1091) (February 21, 2007) (Justice Scalia)

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2007 published in Punch and Jurists January 29, 2007
Filed under: False Arrest, Punch And Jurists.

In this case, the Supreme Court addressed what appears to be a very straightforward question - namely does a false arrest statute of limitations begin to run at the time of the person’s arrest, or only after the arrested person is later exonerated?

That recurrent issue is complicated by so-called ...

 

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