Does the First Amendment, which prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions, including criminal prosecutions, apply when a government official uses physical force against an individual in response to that individual's protected act of symbolic protest?

2. Does Graham v. Connor, which held that all excessive force claims against law enforcement officers should be analyzed under the Fourth Amendment and its reasonableness standard, preclude First Amendment retaliation claims that involve retaliatory force by a court security officer?

3. Does an individual have a recognized right to protest, verbally and symbolically, the acts of government officials such that a reasonable officer would know not to use force against an individual in retaliation for the exercise of that speech?

Does the First Amendment prohibit government officials from using retaliatory force against an individual exercising protected speech?