No. 19-1108
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)
Tags: civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability
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Latest Conference:
2020-10-30
(distributed 5 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action making a leader of a protest demonstration personally liable in damages for injuries inflicted by an unidentified person's violent act there, when it is undisputed that the leader neither intended, authorized, directed, nor ratified the perpetrator's act, nor engaged in or incited violence of any kind?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action?
Docket Entries
2020-12-04
JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2020-11-02
Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1108_7lh8.pdf'>opinion</a>. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. Justice Thomas dissents. <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1108_7lh8.pdf'>Opinion</a> per curiam. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1108_7lh8.pdf'>Opinion</a>)
2020-10-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/30/2020.
2020-10-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-10-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
2020-06-19
Reply of petitioner DeRay Mckesson filed. (Distributed)
2020-06-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-05-29
Brief of respondent John Doe in opposition filed.
2020-05-11
Response Requested. (Due June 10, 2020)
2020-04-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2020.
2020-04-13
Waiver of right of respondent John Doe to respond filed.
2020-04-09
Brief amicus curiae of The Rutherford Institute filed.
2020-04-09
Brief amici curiae of First Amendment Scholars filed.
2020-04-09
Brief amicus curiae of Howard University Human and Civil Rights Clinic filed.
2020-04-09
Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Free Speech filed.
2020-04-09
Brief amici curiae of Floyd Abrams, et al. filed.
2020-04-09
Brief amicus curiae of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed.
2020-04-09
Brief of respondent Black Lives Matter Global Network, Inc. in support filed.
2020-03-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 9, 2020)
Attorneys
Black Lives Matter Global Network, Inc.
David Meir Zionts — Covington & Burlington LLP, Respondent
DeRay Mckesson
David Thomas Goldberg — Donahue, Goldberg, Weaver & Littleton, Petitioner
First Amendment Scholars
Hyland Hunt — Deutsch Hunt PLLC, Amicus
Floyd Abrams, Erwin Chemerinsky, Walter Dellinger, Geoffrey R. Stone, Nadine Strossen, and Kenneth P. White
H. Jefferson Powell — Duke Law School, Amicus
Howard University Human and Civil Rights Clinic
Institute for Free Speech
John Doe
Donna Unkel Grodner — Grodner & Associates, Respondent
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The Rutherford Institute