Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
In a Bivens action based on the exclusion of plaintiffs, by volunteers acting under government supervision, from a speech by then-President Bush, dismissal of the complaint based on qualified immunity is affirmed where plaintiffs failed to identify any First Amendment doctrine that prohibited the government from excluding them from an official speech on private property.
Read Weise v. Casper, No. 09-1085
Appellate Information
Filed January 27, 2010
Judges
Opinion by Judge Kelly
Counsel
For Appellants:
Christopher Hansen and Catherine Crump of American Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY
For Appellees:
Sean Gallagher and Dugan Bliss, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Denver, CO
Brett Lilly, Brett R. Lilly, L.L.C.,Wheat Ridge, CO