Meyer v. Town of Buffalo

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “filing a criminal complaint with law enforcement officials constitutes an exercise of the First Amendment right”
• concluding that “filing a criminal complaint with law enforcement officials constitutes an exercise of the First Amendment right to petition the government for the redress of grievances”
• concluding that plaintiff’s attempt to report that she had allegedly been physically assaulted to law enforcement was an exercise of her First Amendment right to petition government for redress of grievances
• concluding that filing a criminal complaint with law enforcement is protected speech
• noting that claims against individual defendants in their official capacities are treated as against the governmental entity or entities they represent
• admonishing that the court is “not charged with making the parties’ arguments for them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).