Qualls v. Diederich's Enterprises, Inc.

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• holding that liability in a § 1983 case is “personal, based upon each defendant’s own constitutional violations”
• holding that officer-defendants enjoyed qualified immunity on Fourth Amendment claims but not First Amendment claims
• holding that a court should not dismiss a claim unless it is beyond all doubt that a Plaintiff can prove no set of facts that would entitle her to relief
• holding that the plaintiff stated a plausible First Amendment retaliation claim based on allegations that the defendants instigated searches of the plaintiff's property in retaliation for comments made by the plaintiff in an article
• noting that the searching officers were explicitly told that the computer contained password-protected files to which the consenting party did not have access
• noting that locked computer files to which the consenter did not know the password were not covered by consent

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