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- Title: Meltzer v. United States (Two Cases). Ex
- Author : United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
- Release Date : January 13, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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In a second amended complaint filed in the District Court, it was alleged that defendant at 9:30 p.m., arrested and imprisoned plaintiff for approximately twenty hours, telling the latter that defendant would file a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in violation of a state law, and that plaintiff was released the next day. It is claimed defendant was and represented himself to be a police officer of Los Angeles. It is pleaded that defendant had no probable cause to believe and did not believe that plaintiff had committed a crime. There are no "facts" pleaded as a basis, but there are bald conclusions that the action was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, implemented by the Third Civil Rights Act. There was no attempt to set up diversity of citizenship between the parties. The trial court allowed a motion to dismiss upon the ground of lack of jurisdiction. This holding was clearly right. The complaint stated a claim of false imprisonment cognizable only by state law.