Nichols v. Kobratz

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “this circuit does not recognize” a retaliatory-investigation claim
• affirming the district court’s dismissal of Monell claim based on “custom” for failure to “allege that city employees retaliated against, investigated, or arrested anyone else because of their speech”
• affirming the district court’s judgment dismissing a municipal liability claim based on “custom” because the plaintiff did “not allege that city employees retaliated against, investigated, or arrested anyone else because of their speech”
• “There is a big difference between split-second decisions by police officers and premeditated plans to arrest a person for her journalism.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).