Collinson v. Gott

This case presents novel and important constitutional issues growing out of a citizen’s claim that his first amendment rights were violated when the president of a board of county commissioners ruled him out of order while he was addressing a called public meeting and then had him evicted.

In Joseph Collinson’s action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against John M. Gott, President of the Board of Commissioners, the Calvert County, Maryland, Board of Commissioners, and Edward Bowen and Patrick Nutter, police officers who carried out Gott’s eviction order, the district court denied Collinson’s motion for…