The Supreme Court rejected an Ohio man’s claim that his constitutional rights were violated when he was prosecuted for making satirical posts about his local police department on Facebook.
Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page poking fun at his local police department in Parma, Ohio.WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an Ohio man's claim that his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested and prosecuted for making satirical posts about his local police department on Facebook.
At issue in the case was whether the police officers were correctly granted qualified immunity by a lower court under the rationale that previous court precedent had not clearly established that Novak's actions constituted protected speech under the Constitution's First Amendment. The police department, claiming the posts had disrupted its operations, launched an investigation and ultimately searched Novak's apartment, arrested him and jailed him for four days.
The police officers, Kevin Riley and Thomas Connor, say they had probable cause to arrest Novak because they genuinely believed his conduct was disrupting their operations.
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