Adamson v. May Co.

Plaintiff seeks reversal of a summary judgment dismissing his action against a department store and its security officer for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. 1 Defendants argue that summary judgment was justified because the security officer’s probable cause to believe plaintiff committed a theft offense had been demonstrated by two prior determinations of probable cause. The municipal court judge had so found when he ordered plaintiff’s bind over for grand jury consideration, and the grand jury so found when it indicted plaintiff for that theft. We conclude that each of those…