Attorney Grievance Comm'n of Md. v. Lang

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• concluding that officers were entitled to qualified immunity because, at the time of the arrest, it was not clearly established that an arrest supported by probable cause could violate the First Amendment
• explaining that “in most cases, probable cause to arrest defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest”
• ruling plaintiff’s retaliatory arrest claim failed because officer had probable cause to arrest
• granting summary judgment where plaintiff failed to provide any evidence regarding the bare nolle prosequi order other than “case dismissed on motion of state’s attorney”
• recognizing First Amendment claim based on retaliatory arrest
• journalist arrested for driving the wrong way down a one-way street lacked comparators because he failed to show that others “have not been and would not be arrested for driving the wrong way down a one-way street”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).