Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Granted! Vacated! Remanded! This week, SCOTUS revived IJ client Mason Murphy's retaliatory arrest claim against an officer who arrested him for walking on the wrong side of a rural road in Missouri—an offense that never results in arrest in that jurisdiction. On remand to the Eighth Circuit, Mason will now have another shot at showing that he should be able to proceed with his First Amendment retaliation claim. The GVR also means that both of the two lower court decisions to exclude allegations like Mason's (that no one else has been arrested for the same conduct) are no longer good law. (The other case of course being IJ's monumental win in Gonzalez v. Trevino in June.) Click here to learn more.
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