Garcia v. City Of Trenton

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• holding that $35 worth of parking tickets was sufficient to overcome summary judgment because Defendant “engaged the punitive machinery of government in order to punish [Plaintiff] for her speaking out.”
• holding that a reasonable jury could find that the issuance of four parking tickets totaling $35 in a two-month period would deter a person of ordinary firmness from exercising her First Amendment rights
• case involving retaliatory parking tickets issued to plaintiff who complained to city and state officials about failure to enforce ordinance was sufficient to go to jury
• “The ordinary-firmness test is . . . designed to weed out trivial matters from those deserving the time of the courts as real and substantial violations of the First Amendment.”
• plaintiff’s receipt of $35.00 in parking tickets after she complained about city’s failure to enforce sidewalk ordinance was sufficient to establish retaliation that would chill the speech of a person of ordinary firmness.
• Dkt. No. 23, at 11

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