Troy K. Scheffler v. Jack Molin

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that, while an official’s instruction to call the police could be deemed a threat of retaliation, “what the police would do after that was in their discretion,” not the official’s discretion or control
• requiring the plaintiff to show a chilling effect on a constitutional right
• considering whether conduct by a city official constituted First 23 Amendment retaliation and declining to address whether the same conduct might amount to a “content-based restriction” on the plaintiff’s “right of expression in a limited public forum”
• “To prevail on his First'Amendment retaliation claim, [Eggenberger] must show (1) that he engaged in a constitutionally protected activity____”
• To deter the exercise of speech, a defendant’s actions generally must have some kind of “concrete consequences.”
• “To prevail on his First Amendment retaliation claim, [the plaintiff] must show . . . that he engaged in a constitutionally protected activity . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).