Legal Opinion
McBride v. Village of Michiana
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 14, 1996No. 95-1881PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.
Present and former officials of the Village of Michiana appeal from the district court’s denial of their requests for qualified immunity in an action premised upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In the underlying proceeding, Noreen McBride, a reporter for various newspapers and other media outlets, claimed that the defendants infringed upon her clearly established constitutional right to be free from retaliation for exercising her First Amendment freedoms. We agree with the district court that the right of a reporter to be free from reprisals for relating news items about elected…
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