Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action?

QUESTION PRESENTED 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? ii CERTIFICATE OF PARTIES, PROCEDINGS AND RELATED CASES In addition to the parties on the caption, Black Lives Matter Network, Inc., was a party to the proceedings before the Court of Appeals but does not join this petition. PROCEEDINGS Doe v. Mckesson, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, Civ. Action No. 16—00742-BAJ—RLB. Judgment entered September 28, 2017; Doe v. Mckesson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 17-30864. Judgment entered August 8, 2019 (withdrawn December 16, 2019); Doe v. Mckesson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 17-30864. Judgment entered December 16, 2019; and Doe v. Mckesson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 17-30864. Order denying rehearing en banc, issued January 28, 2020. A motion to dismiss a petition for certiorari, No. 19-730, which sought review of the (withdrawn) August 8 decision, is currently before this Court.