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191696P.pdf 03/22/2021 Business Leaders In Christ v. The University of Iowa
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1696
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Benton and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging defendants violated the
plaintiff's constitutional rights through selective enforcement of the
University's Human Rights Policy, the district court granted the
plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on its free-speech,
free-association, and free-exercise claims and entered a permanent
injunction prohibiting the University defendants from enforcing the policy
against plaintiff in certain conditions; the court granted qualified
immunity to the individual defendants on plaintiff's money-damages claim,
concluding that the law on on free speech, expressive association and free
exercise of religion was not clearly established; plaintiff appeals. Held:
the district court erred in granting qualified immunity to the individual
defendants on plaintiff's free-speech and expressive-association claims;
it correctly granted the individual defendants qualified immunity on
plaintiff's free-exercise claim. Affirmed in part, reversed in part and
remanded for further proceedings. Judge Kobes, concurring in part, and
dissenting in part.