Legal Opinion
Piazza v. Mayne
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 29, 2000No. 99-30019PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff-Appellant appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee in this section 1983 action for malicious prosecution in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. We affirm.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On July 27, 1993, Defendant-Appellee Jeff Mayne, an enforcement agent with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (the “Department”), inspected a truck containing a 1,121-pound shipment of hybrid striped bass (the “July 27 shipment”). This shipment belonged to Plaintiff-Appellant Paul Piazza, a licensed wholesale seafood…
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