Kucinich v. Forbes

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• holding that the first amendment prohibited a city council from suspending one of its members for making allegedly defamatory remarks about another member during a council meeting
• holding that the first amendment prohibit ed a city council from suspending one of its members for making allegedly defamatory remarks about another member during a council meeting
• finding that “different classes of voters were established by [the] City Council’s suspension of Gary Kucinich”
• assuming without addressing that a voter had standing to Kutchinski as next friend to H.K. v. Freeland Cmty. Sch. Dist., 69 F.4th 350, 356 (6th Cir. 2023) (quoting U.S. CONST. amend. I) and citing Grosjean v. Am. Press Co., 297 U.S. 233, 243 (1936
• Cleveland City Council acted unconstitutionally when it suspended Gary Kucinich for possibly suggesting that the council president had accepted money for passage of certain legislation
• Cleveland City Council acted unconstitutionally when it suspended Gary Kucinich for possibly suggesting that the council president had accepted money for passage of certain legislation

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