The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case of a New York man suing police for malicious prosecution to relax the legal standard for bringing such lawsuits in federal courts, overturning the tougher prevailing standard. The case is Thompson v. Clark, court file 20-659. The high court agreed March 8, 2021, to consider the case and heard it Oct. 12, 2021. The respondents are four New York Police Department (NYPD) officers: Pagiel Clark, Paul Montefusco, Phillip Romano, and Gerard Bouwmans. The officers raided the home of petitioner Larry Thompson, a U.S. Navy veteran living in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife. At the time of the incident, the couple, parents of a one-week-old daughter, were caring for the wife’s sister, who has cognitive challenges. On Jan. 15, 2014, the sister dialed 911 to report the baby cried when Thompson changed her diaper and mistakenly identified diaper rashes as signs of abuse. …