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ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) - Citing an influential appellate judge’s declaration that “the era of micromanagement of government functions by the federal courts is over,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has dissolved a proposed class action on behalf of future protestors against the City of St. Louis and put a strict time limit on a temporary injunction limiting how police can enforce unlawful-assembly ordinances.
A federal judge imposed strict rules on St. Louis police in November 2017 after widespread rioting erupted in the wake of the acquittal of officer Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith. Police were threatened with contempt of court if they ordered protestors to disperse unless the protestors were “acting in concert to pose an imminent threat to use force or violence.”
St. Louis Public Radio
Demonstrators march through the Central West End neighborhood Sept. 15, 2017. A class-action lawsuit over officers conduct that weekend recently saw new developments in appellate court.
The 8th Circuit appellate court yesterday
issued a ruling in long-simmering litigation over St. Louis police officers’ treatment of protesters and journalists in September 2017. Legal experts said on
St. Louis on the Air that the ruling comprises a clear setback for protesters and the ACLU of Missouri.
Big protests followed the acquittal of former St. Louis Police officer Jason Stockley on Sept. 15, and they lasted throughout the weekend. Some protesters were maced. Approximately 125 were caught up in a “kettle” and arrested, some receiving violent treatment in the process. Numerous lawsuits (and one criminal prosecution, against officers who
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