131072P.pdf   05/30/2014  Frank Snider, III  v.  Matthew Peters
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-1072
                          and No:  13-1108
                          and No:  13-1410
                          and No:  13-1618
                          and No:  13-1619
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Wollman and Melloy, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil Rights. Where plaintiff was arrested by Cape Girardeau 
   police for flag desecration, the arresting officer conceded he deprived 
   plaintiff of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the district 
   court did not err in denying the officer summary judgment based on 
   qualified immunity, as the rights were clearly established at the time of 
   plaintiff's arrest; nor were the officer's actions insulated by the 
   issuance of an arrest warrant by a local magistrate as a reasonably 
   competent officer would have concluded no warrant should be issued for 
   plaintiff's expressive conduct; the district court did not err in holding 
   Missouri's flag desecration statute to be facially unconstitutional as the 
   statute is overbroad and is not susceptible to an appropriate narrowing 
   construction; district court did not abuse its discretion by making the 
   State and the defendant officer jointly and severally liable for 
   plaintiff's attorneys' fee award; district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in awarding attorneys' fees based on the rate for the St. Louis 
   legal market, instead of Cape Girardeau, as plaintiff showed he could not 
   obtain competent legal counsel in the Cape Girardeau community; the court 
   did not err in granting the City of Cape Girardeau summary judgment as 
   there was no connection between the arrest and the city's ordinance 
   governing flag desecration and the City did not provide the police 
   officer's training.