Supreme Court· 6/4/2012

Reichle v. Howards

Citations

132 S. Ct. 2088
182 L. Ed. 2d 985
2012 U.S. LEXIS 4132
566 U.S. 658

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holding that there is no “specific right to be free from a retaliatory arrest that is otherwise supported by probable cause”
concluding that officers were entitled to qualified immunity after considering only the “clearly established” prong of that analysis
holding that as of 2006, “it was not clearly established that an arrest supported by probable cause could give rise to a First Amendment violation”
holding that a “First Amendment right to be free from a retaliatory arrest that is supported by probable cause” has never been a clearly established right
holding that a right is clearly established when the law is “sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would [have understood] that what he is doing violates that right.”
holding that as of 2012 qualified immun‐ ity blocks recovery on a retaliatory‐arrest claim

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