221288P.pdf   11/01/2022  Megan Green  v.  Cliff Sommer
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1288
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Gruender and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging St. Louis police officers 
   violated plaintiff's civil rights when they fired tear gas in her 
   direction during the protests surrounding the acquittal of St. Louis 
   police officer Jason Stockley, the district court did not err in denying 
   the motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity filed by four 
   officers who allegedly tear-gassed plaintiff from an armored vehicle, as 
   plaintiff's allegation that she was not committing any crime when she was 
   tear-gassed was enough to plausibly allege the tear-gassing was in 
   retaliation for her First Amendment activities; the district court erred 
   in denying eight other officers' motion for summary judgment based on 
   qualified immunity as the complaint did not plausibly allege they were 
   personally involved in the alleged violation of clearly established 
   constitutional rights; with respect to plaintiff's conspiracy claims, it 
   was not clearly established at the time of the incident that officers 
   could conspire with one another to violate a First Amendment right, and 
   the district court erred by not dismissing this claim; the district court 
   did not err in denying defendants official immunity on plaintiff's state 
   law claims.