Mary Florence Humphrey Wirt v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that professor’s inflammatory anti-semitic remarks at festival were of public concern
• a right is clearly established if “a reasonable defendant would understand from existing law that his acts were unlawful”
• “First Amendment protection does not hinge on the payability of the presentation; it extends to all speech on public matters, no matter how vulgar or misguided.”
• in which, perhaps significantly, the merits of the issue were decided after trial , rather than summarily
• “[a] plaintiff may establish causation under section 1983 if he shows that the defendants participated in, or were ‘moving forces’ behind, the deprivation”

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