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The justices rejected an appeal from DeRay Mckesson in a case that stems from a 2016 protest over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge. At an earlier stage of the case, the high court ...
Rejecting an appeal brought by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, the Supreme Court skipped deciding whether the leader of a demonstration can be sued for an injury to a police officer ...
DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An early supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has been active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri , and Baltimore, Maryland and on social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. [ 2 ]
An unnamed Baton Rouge officer is seeking damages against activist DeRay Mckesson on claims that Mckesson’s “negligent” organization of a The post Federal court ruling in Louisiana puts ...
The post The lawsuit against DeRay Mckesson would have a chilling effect on the right to protest appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: A recent ruling says a police officer can sue the activist for ...
Mckesson v. Doe, 592 U.S. 1 (2020), [1] was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that temporarily halted a lawsuit by a police officer against an activist associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and instructed the lower federal court (the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) to seek clarification of state law from the Louisiana Supreme Court. [2]
Chicago is among 12 major cities that declared curfews in order to prevent looting and vandalism. [4] On May 31, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to send the Illinois National Guard to Chicago for the first time in the 52 years since the 1968 riots in Chicago. [5] The economic damage caused by the disturbances exceeded ...
Mckesson's case had made it to the Supreme Court once before. The justices in 2020 ordered additional review by lower courts to determine whether Louisiana state law allowed for Ford's claim.