Olivier v. Grounds

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that prisoner “held a strong First Amendment interest in refusing the demands of the guards that he provide both false information, and truthful information on an ongoing basis”
• concluding that inmate’s decision to withhold speech constitutes protected First Amendment activity
• noting that out-of-circuit decisions must “clearly foreshadow[] a particular ruling on the issue” (quotation marks omitted)
• finding that an inmate had a First Amendment right to refuse to give false information or to become a “snitch” in the future
• holding that “the First Amendment protects both a prisoner’s right not to serve as an informant, and to refuse to provide false information to prison officials[,]” just as “citizens enjoy a First Amendment right to refuse to provide false information to the government”
• acknowledging that “neither the Supreme Court nor any other 16 circuit court ha[d] yet to decide whether a prisoner holds a right not to serve as an informant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).