Dijon SHARPE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
WINTERVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT; William Blake Ellis, in His Official Capacity Only; Myers Parker Helms, IV, in his Individual and Official Capacity, Defendants-Appellees.
National Police Accountability Project; The Institute for Justice; American Civil Liberties Union; American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina; National Press Photographers Association; The University of Virginia School of Law First Amendment Clinic; The Duke University School of Law First Amendment Clinic; Electronic Privacy Information Center; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Cato Institute, Amici Supporting Appellant.
Southern States Police Benevolent Association, Amicus Supporting Appellees.
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Argued: October 27, 2022.
Decided: February 7, 2023.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Andrew Tutt, ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Dan M. Hartzog, Jr., HARTZOG LAW GROUP LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees. Joseph Michael McGuinness, THE MCGUINNESS LAW FIRM, Elizabethtown, North Carolina, for Amicus The Southern States Police Benevolent Association. ON BRIEF: T. Greg Doucette, THE LAW OFFICES OF T. GREG DOUCETTE PLLC, Durham, North Carolina; Jing Wang, Palo Alto, California, John A. Freedman, David McMullen, Washington, D.C., Isaac Ramsey, ARNOLD & PORTER KAY SCHOLER LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellant. Katherine M. Barber-Jones, HARTZOG LAW GROUP LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees. Lauren Bonds, NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT, New Orleans, Louisiana; J. Christopher Mills, J. CHRISTOPHER MILLS, LLC, Columbia, South Carolina; David Milton, Boston, Massachusetts, for Amicus National Police Accountability Project. Victoria Clark, Austin, Texas, William Aronin, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE, Arlington, Virginia, for Amicus The Institute for Justice. Vera Eidelman, Carl Takei, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, New York, New York; Irena Como, Kristi Graunke, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Amici American Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. Mickey H. Osterreicher, Buffalo, New York, Alicia Wagner Calzada, NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION, San Antonio, Texas; Lin Weeks, Gabriel Rottman, Ian C. Kalish, First Amendment Clinic, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia; Sarah Ludington, First Amendment Clinic, DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Durham, North Carolina, for Amici National Press Photographers Association, the University of Virginia School of Law First Amendment Clinic, and the Duke University School of Law First Amendment Clinic. Megan Iorio, Jake Weiner, ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Electronic Privacy Information Center. Sophia Cope, Mukund Rathi, ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Electronic Frontier Foundation. Clark M. Neily III, Jay R. Schweikert, CATO INSTITUTE, Washington, D.C., for Amicus The Cato Institute.
Vacated in part, affirmed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Richardson wrote the opinion, in which Judge Nachmanoff joined. Judge Niemeyer wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment.
RICHARDSON, Circuit Judge:
This case asks whether a town's alleged policy that bans video livestreaming certain interactions with law enforcement violates the First Amendment. It also asks whether a police officer who, during a traffic stop, attempted to stop a passenger from livestreaming the encounter may be successfully sued under § 1983...
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