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Supreme Court turns away online Texas journalist's case over arrest
The Supreme Court's refusal leaves a controversial Texas law unchallenged, with the 5th Circuit granting qualified immunity to officials who arrested Villarreal for soliciting nonpublic information.
- The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Texas journalist Priscilla Villarreal over her arrest for obtaining information from police and publishing it on Facebook, angering Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
- Villarreal was charged with misuse of information after publishing identities of suicide and car crash victims on Facebook in 2017 using information from a police officer in Laredo.
- The 5th Circuit had ruled that the officers and prosecutors who arrested Villarreal were entitled to qualified immunity, a decision that Sotomayor said left standing 'a clear attack on the First Amendment.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the appeal of a Texas-based online journalist who claimed she was wrongfully arrested in a case that drew national media attention…
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from online citizen journalist over her arrest in Texas
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Texas-based online citizen journalist who said she was wrongly arrested in a case that drew attention from national media organizations and free speech advocates
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