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The three-judge panel also ruled that the individual deputies and school officials could not be held liable for the 1st Amendment violations, though the panel found that the deputies wrongly detained the activists for 75 minutes.
"A reasonable officer in the deputies' situation could believe that their actions were lawful," said Jennifer Lehman, a lawyer in the county counsel's office.
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This is one of the byproducts that concerns me. The court cited a heckler's veto of free speech. A 75 minute detainment is a government veto of your 4th amendment rights when you consider that many 1st amendment activities are only 1 or two hours. Think about how many of SOS's past events were planned for that time span, and if the police hold you up for half of that because the law as stated seems violated, your 1st amendment has successfully been infringed, and the court is saying there's no foul.