false imprisonment complaint

• Hancock v. Ashenhurst, (Ohio 2004)

Plaintiff filed a complaint alleging false arrest and false imprisonment against two police officers who had stopped her. Plaintiff was driving a car which was registered to her sister and, when the police officer checked the license plate, a warrant for a man using her sister's address appeared. The officers stopped plaintiff, checked her identification and released her. This court found summary judgment inappropriate because a material issue of fact existed regarding whether the officer acted recklessly.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Commentary: Initiating and Conducting an Effective Internal Investigation

Internal investigations are an effective way to gather facts relevant to a complaint brought to a company's attention, or an incident that occurs in the workplace. If a company executes an investigation properly and takes reasonable steps to end any inappropriate behavior that it discovers, it might be entitled to an affirmative defense that shields it from liability. If that same company either fails to investigate or investigates poorly, it might expose itself to liability on claims ranging from harassment and retaliation to invasion of privacy and false imprisonment.

• Daily Journal of Commerce
• March 31, 2011

• Baker v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., (Ohio 2012)

Ohio Court of Claims' dismissal of inmate's complaint against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction affirmed in part and reversed in part where trial court correctly ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction to consider constitutional claims but erroneously ruled that the appellant's claim for false imprisonment was not yet ripe for review.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Campus Arrest Leads to $2m Suit

Two former Loyola College in Maryland students have filed a $2 million lawsuit against the school, a campus police officer and the Baltimore City Police Department, alleging they were arrested on campus for no reason and then beaten up while being held at the Central Intake and Booking Facility. Thomas Michael Duffy of Mechanicsburg, Pa., and Jared Patrick Geary of Cheshire, Mass., allege battery, false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution in an eight-count complaint filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• September 30, 2004

• Robinson v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., (Ohio 2011)

Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction affirmed. Plaintiff's claims for false imprisonment and improper actions by the Adult Parole Authority were untimely, he did not state a claim for wrongful imprisonment, and the Court of Claims had no jurisdiction to decide plaintiff's constitutional claims.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Christopher Parish v. City Elkhart, (7th Cir. 2010)

... claims of police misconduct resulting in false arrest, false imprisonment, and inten- tional infl...After his release, Parish filed a complaint against the City of Elkhart and several officers w...

• Federal Circuits

• Haddad v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., (Ohio 2002)

Wrongful imprisonment--Where an inmate, pursuant to R.C. 2967.11 served 90 days "bad time" incarceration beyond his lawful term of incarceration, and the statute subsequently was ruled unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court, the inmate could not bring an action as a "wrongfully imprisoned individual" under R.C. 2743.48 where he did not affirmatively prove his innocence or secure a determination from the common pleas court that he was innocent of the alleged act for which the 90-day "bad time" penalty was imposed. The two-year statute of limitations of R.C. 2743.48(H) was inapplicable, and the cause of action was barred by the one-year statute of limitations in R.C. 2305.11(A) because the complaint was filed more than a year after the cause of action for false imprisonment accrued.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Wisconsin/Illinois Briefs

Prosser victory in court recount OK'd MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin board that certifies elections declared Monday that a recount had confirmed state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in the hard-fought April 5 election many saw as a referendum on polarizing union-rights legislation.

..., repeated sexual assault of a child and false imprisonment. A complaint filed Friday adds 15 cha...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• May 24, 2011

• 10 Stanton Shelton v. St. Louis City, (8th Cir. 2010)

...§ 1983 false-imprisonment complaint against the City of St. Lou...

• Federal Circuits

• U.S. District Court, Maryland Case Summaries: August 7, 2011

Torts False arrest

..., battery, false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution. Defendants filed a mottion for partial dismissal of Barnes' complaint on the grounds that Barnes' claims were too broadl...

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• August 14, 2011