Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al.
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Whether the First Amendment protects a husband's advice to his wife that leads to his arrest, and whether the Court should review the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the First Amendment and qualified immunity doctrine
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband’s advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action. 2. Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit’s departure from the other Circuit Courts of Appeals’ and with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ application of the First Amendment to similar interference cases, and to Texas’s own interference statute and built-in speech exception. 3. Whether this Court should revisit the propriety and scope of the qualified immunity defense.