Redd v. City of Enterprise

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the existence of prob- able cause for an arrest is a complete defense to a First Amendment retaliation claim under the doctrine of quali- fied immunity
• holding that when probable cause supports an arrest, an officer “is justified in arresting that person, even if the offender may be speaking at the time that he is arrested”
• holding that probable cause generally bars claims for First Amendment violations
• explaining that when a police officer has probable cause to believe that a person is committing a particular public offense, the officer may lawfully arrest that person, even though the offender is engaged in protected First Amendment activity
• to be lawful, detention that is more than a mere investigatory stop or an arrest must be supported by probable cause
• “It is clearly established that an arrest made without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).