Barham, Jeffrey v. Ramsey, Charles H.

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• holding that \[v]ague allegations that `demonstrators' committed offenses will not compensate\ for a failure to show any objective basis for arresting individual protesters
• holding that the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment were coterminous on facts of the case, because “[t]he Fourth Amendment demands nothing less”
• noting that whether the defendant officers have violated a constitutional right of the plaintiff is a “threshold question” in the qualified immunity analysis
• finding that police gave no order to disperse, did not warn persons in Pershing Park that arrest was imminent, cordoned off the park, and arrested 386 people inside
• denying qualified immunity to a police chief in an interlocutory appeal when the extent of his involvement in a mass arrest was disputed by the parties
• denying qualified immunity to a police chief in an interlocutory appeal when the extent of his involvement in a mass arrest was disputed by the parties

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