Supreme Court Allows Ohio Man to Sue Police Over Alleged Malicious Prosecution

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 last week to allow an Ohio jeweler to bring civil rights claims against police for malicious prosecution after criminal charges brought against him were dropped. The jeweler claims that local police fabricated evidence against him. The ruling comes after the Supreme Court relaxed the legal standard for bringing malicious prosecution actions against police in federal courts, finding in Thompson v. Clark (2022) that plaintiffs may sue if they can demonstrate that their criminal cases ended without a conviction. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the Court’s majority opinion in Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, which was handed down on June 20....