retaliatory-arrest

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-981 Kyler Newby v. Gabriel J. Bassford Ninth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-arrest first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliatory-arrest The question presented is whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from a retaliatory arrest claim when the officer could have reaso…
25A874 Huong Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-immunity retaliatory-arrest 1. Whether absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity applies when municipal officials act without jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory…
23-1228 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt Eighth Circuit 2024-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution Under Nieves v. Bartlett, probable cause does not bar a retaliatory-arrest claim when the plaintiff shows "that he was arrested when otherwise similar…
23A732 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt, in His Individual Capacity Eighth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete first-amendment jaywalking nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement Whether the probable-cause exception to claims for retaliatory arrests that this Court announced in Nieves v. Bartlett can be satisfied by objective c…
23-597 Robin Mayfield, et al. v. Butler Snow, L.L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comparator-evidence first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-arrest warrant-based-arrest 1. Whether, in the case of an alleged retaliatory arrest in violation of the First Amendment, Nieves v. Bartlett requires a plaintiff to identify othe…
22-1025 Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing 1. Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened. 2.…
21-8122 Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain Fourth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim when there is strong circumstantial proof that a policeman initiated the prosecution to ret…
18-1524 Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution In Neives v. Bartlett, this court held that probable cause is not an absolute bar to a First Amendment retaliatory- arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. § 198…
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high …