Legal Opinion
Doe v. McCulloch
District Court, E.D. Missouri
Decided May 5, 2015No. Case No. 4:15 CV 6 RWSPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
RODNEY W. SIPPEL, District Judge.
Plaintiff Grand Juror Doe (Juror)1 seeks a declaratory judgment that Missouri laws criminalizing Juror’s disclosure of information about her experience on a State of Missouri grand jury are unconstitutional as applied. Juror alleges that these Missouri statutes violate her free speech rights under the First Amendment to United States Constitution. Defendant St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch has moved to dismiss the complaint on numerous grounds. One of the grounds for dismissal is based on the doctrine of abstention.…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Doe v. McCullochMissouri Court of Appeals · 2017
- Grand Juror Doe v. Wesley BellCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2020