191436P.pdf   08/14/2020  Grand Juror Doe  v.  Wesley Bell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1436
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Missouri Grand Juries. Doe was a juror on the grand jury 
   which considered whether to bring criminal charges against former 
   Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in the August, 2014 death 
   of Michael Brown. In this action she sought a declaration that Missouri's 
   grand jury secrecy laws are an unconstitutional abridgement of free speech 
   as applied to her and an injunction preventing their enforcement. For the 
   court's prior opinion in the matter, see Doe v. McCulloch, 835 F.3d 785 
   (8th Cir. 2016). On remand, the district court dismissed the action, and 
   this court affirms. The court need not settle the questions of whether 
   Doe's proposed speech about the grand jury proceedings is covered by the 
   First Amendment or whether Doe waived her speech rights by swearing an 
   oath to keep grand jury matters secret because Missouri's grand jury 
   secrecy laws survive even the strictest scrutiny and are narrowly tailored 
   to achieve a compelling state interest in preserving the functioning of 
   its grand jury system