Robert Aaron Peterson v. Officer Michael Kopp

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• holding that a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim fails if an officer had even arguable probable cause to arrest
• recognizing that “pepper spraying someone in the face would chill a person of ordinary firmness” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that criticizing a police officer and asking for his badge number is protected speech
• recognizing that “pepper spraying someone in the face would chill a person of ordinary firmness” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• concluding that use of pepper spray on “a non-fleeing, non-resisting, non-violent misdemeanant” was unreasonable
• holding that the “causal connection”, i.e., retaliatory motive, is generally a jury question unless it is so free from doubt as to justify taking it from the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).