No. 19-730
Amici (1)
Tags: civil-rights demonstration-law first-amendment free-speech NAACP-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest protest-leader protest-liability standing state-law unidentified-perpetrator
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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 authorized, directed, nor ratified the perpetrator's act, nor engaged in or incited violence of any kind?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the First Amendment and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action against a protest leader for injuries caused by an unidentified person's violent act when the leader did not authorize, direct, or ratify the violence
Docket Entries
2020-03-23
Petition Dismissed - Rule 46.
2020-03-04
Motion to dismiss the petition for a writ of certiorari under Rule 46.2 filed.
2020-01-08
Brief amicus curiae of National Police Association filed.
2019-12-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 9, 2020)
2019-10-25
Application (19A458) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 6, 2019 to December 6, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.
2019-10-25
Application (19A458) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until December 6, 2019.
Attorneys
DeRay McKesson
National Police Association
James Bopp Jr. — The Bopp Law Firm, PC, Amicus