CAMPBELL v. REISCH

No. 19-2994.

986 F.3d 822 (2021)

Mike CAMPBELL, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Representative Cheri Toalson REISCH, Defendant-Appellant Electronic Frontier Foundation; Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Amici on Behalf of Appellee(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: January 27, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant and appeared on the brief was Michael T. Raupp , of Kansas City, MO. The following attorney also appeared on the appellant brief; Lowell D. Pearson , of Jefferson City, MO.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee and appeared on the brief was John Andrew Hirth , of Columbia, MO.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the amicus Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, in support of the appellee, was Ms. Katherine Fallow , of New York, NY. The following attorneys also appeared on the amicus brief of Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: Meenakshi Krishnan , of New York, NY; Jameel Jaffer , of New York, NY; and Alex Abdo , of New York, NY.

Before COLLOTON, ARNOLD, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


After Missouri state representative Cheri Toalson Reisch blocked Mike Campbell from her Twitter account, he sued her under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming she had violated the First Amendment by denying him the right to speak. Following a bench trial, the district court agreed with Campbell, declared that Reisch had violated...

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