Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that police lacked probable cause to arrest protestors generally after a few demonstrators entered a roadway to hand out fliers
• “Qualified immunity shields police officers acting in their official capacity from suits for damages unless their actions violate clearly-established rights of which an objectively reasonable official would have known.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Qualified immunity shields police officers acting in their official capacity from suits for damages unless their actions violate clearly-established rights of which an objectively reasonable official would have known.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Qualified immunity shields police officers acting in their official capacity from suits for damages unless their actions violate clearly-established rights of which an objectively reasonable official would have known.” (internal quotation and alteration omitted)
• “[T]he First Amendment protects political demonstrations and protests . . . .”
• “[T]he numerous disputed material facts preclude[] the grant of qualified immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).