New Jersey recognizes a common law counter-action for malicious prosecution arising from an underlying civil proceeding: "malicious use of process." Separate and apart from case pendent sanctions for ...

In an opinion filed April 23, and later certified for publication on May 13, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed in part an order denying an anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public ...

In Jan Dunning et al. v. Kevin K. Johnson, APLC et al., the Fourth District Court of Appeal held that a developer and property owner could pursue its claims against a neighbor and project opponent for ...

In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin Schwartz tackles the “difficult issues” surrounding a malicious prosecution claim, specifically the claim's “favorable termination” element where he cites ...

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by a man acquitted of rape as well as his argument that the law of malicious prosecution should be changed in order to bring it into line with Article 5 of ...

Persons, against whom a criminal prosecution, civil suit, or other legal proceeding has been instituted maliciously and without probable cause, may file an action for damages for malicious prosecution ...

A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised -- with several hundred of the "buckets" actively providing ...

Many Jamaicans over the years have expressed great concerns about the manner in which their liberty has been unjustly taken from them, coupled with the indignity of having to attend court on multiple ...