Musso v. Hourigan

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• stating that, in a qualified immunity inquiry, the appropriate question is whether it was “clearly established” that the defendant had an affirmative duty to prevent others from infringing on the plaintiffs First Amendment rights
• affirming the district court’s denial of qualified immunity on First Amendment retaliation allegations of false arrest at an open school board meeting
• no legal liability for \failing to prevent\ another from violating plaintiff's First Amendment rights
• court has jurisdiction over qualified immunity appeal where district court denied defendant’s summary judgment motion without expressly addressing the defendant’s qualified immunity defense
• \[I]nterlocutory review is appropriate when a district court denies a motion for summary judgment without addressing a proffered qualified immunity defense.\
• the First Amendment “prohibits state action that regulates speech on the basis of content”

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Cited by

62 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Pritchett v. Alford
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-08-19· cited 382×
• Jose Zurita v. Richard Hyde
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-12-22· cited 180×
• Willie D. White v. Richard Frank, Freeman Marshall, City of Poughkeepsie
  Second Circuit· 1988-08-24· cited 164×
• Mulligan v. Rioux
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-06-28· cited 164×
• Workman v. Jordan
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-03-16· cited 161×
• Grant v. City of Pittsburgh
  Third Circuit· 1996-10-18· cited 160×
• Elizabeth Hannula v. City of Lakewood and Jane Doe, and Don Lively
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-06-29· cited 159×
• Donna Lowe v. Town of Fairland, Oklahoma Beverly Hill Don Jones Shirley Mangold and Loretta Vinyard
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-05-14· cited 159×
• Charles Mozzochi v. Richard S. Borden, Jr., Paul J. Gibbons, Richard S. Borden, Jr., Paul J. Gibbons, Town of Glastonbury
  Second Circuit· 1992-03-19· cited 142×
• Thomas Leonard v. Stephen Robinson, in His Individual Capacity
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-02-02· cited 142×
• Eng v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1988-10-04· cited 136×
• McMillian v. Johnson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-07-09· cited 134×
• Collinson v. Gott
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-02-13· cited 121×
• Schrob v. Catterson
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-29· cited 109×
• Carl Nelson v. George Jashurek, Patrolman
  Third Circuit· 1997-03-18· cited 107×
• Monteiro v. City of Elizabeth
  Third Circuit· 2006-02-08· cited 93×
• DeVargas v. Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-04-07· cited 92×
• Schnabel v. Tyler
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-08-09· cited 79×
• Herman Louis Dimartini v. Lynn Jay Ferrin, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-11-21· cited 70×

Other cases named Musso v. Hourigan

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Musso v. Hourigan
  Second Circuit· 1988-01-05· cited 36×