Legal Opinion

Glik v. Cunniffe

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided August 26, 2011No. 10-1764PublishedCited by 176 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Simon Glik was arrested for using his cell phone’s digital video camera to film several police officers arresting a young man on the Boston Common. The charges against Glik, which included violation of Massachusetts’s wiretap statute and two other state-law offenses, were subsequently judged baseless and were dismissed. Glik then brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that his arrest for filming the officers constituted a violation of his rights under the First and Fourth Amendments.

In this interlocutory appeal, the defendant police officers challenge an order…

2Cases cited47 opinions

  1. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Pearson v. CallahanSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  3. Hunter v. BryantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  5. Branzburg v. HayesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972

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3Cited by176 opinions

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  4. Robert McKay v. William FederspielCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2016
  5. Richard Fields v. City of PhiladelphiaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2017

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