Asociación De Periodistas De Puerto Rico v. Mueller

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves alleged violations of the First and Fourth Amendments by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) against a group of journalists during the execution of a search warrant. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on all claims based on qualified immunity. After carefully considering the evidence in the record, we affirm summary judgment on all First Amendment claims, but hold that summary judgment was not proper against the individual plaintiffs on their excessive force claims.

I. Background

As this case comes to us on…