Legal Opinion
McMahon v. Albany Unified School District
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 31, 2002No. A093980PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CORRIGAN, Acting P. J.
Here we hold that appellant David McMahon’s motion for directed verdict was appropriately denied and that the jury properly rejected his false arrest claim. His conduct of dumping gallons of garbage on the floor of a schoolroom during a school board meeting was sufficient to support an arrest for disturbing a public meeting and was not speech protected by the First Amendment. We reject McMahon’s other claims of error as well and affirm the judgment.
Factual and Procedural Background
The events at issue here occurred at the April 1996 meeting of the board of the…
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