Austin v. Old National Bank in Evansville

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant-plaintiff David H. Austin appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee-defendant Old National Bank in Evansville (Bank) in his action against the Bank for false arrest. Austin raises one issue for review which we restate as: whether the Bank is immunized from liability, pursuant to the Federal Right to Financial Privacy Act1 (Act), for disclosing its suspicion that Austin was using counterfeit checks to the Evansville Police Department.

FACTS

The undisputed facts reveal that at the time that the present dispute arose, Austin was a…