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163629P.pdf 10/17/2017 Jimmy Weed v. Corporal T.R. Jenkins
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3629
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Colloton, Circuit Judge, and Gerrard,
District Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. The defendant Missouri State Trooper could
reasonably interpret a municipal ordinance to forbid overpass protests
that hinder or impede traffic; the ordinance authorized defendant to issue
a proper order to disperse, and the doctrine of qualified immunity
protected defendant from First Amendment damages because he had no reason
to know, based on preexisting law, that his order to plaintiff was
unlawful; plaintiff disobeyed a lawful order to disperse and the defendant
had probable cause to arrest him under Missouri law; constitutional
challenges to Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 43.170 rejected.