MITCHELL v. KIRCHMEIER

No. 21-1071.

28 F.4th 888 (2022)

Marcus MITCHELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Morton County Sheriff Kyle KIRCHMEIER; Morton County; City of Bismarck; Morton County Sheriff's Deputy George Piehl; Bismarck Police Officer Tyler Welk; North Dakota Highway Patrol Sergeant Benjamin Kennelly; John Does 1-2, Defendants-Appellees Institute for Justice; National Congress of American Indians; Erwin Chemerinsky; Tabatha Abu El-Haj; Genevieve Lakier; Lyrissa Lidsky, Dean; Kermit Roosevelt; Amanda Shanor; Steven H. Shiffrin; Geoffrey Stone; Nadine Strossen; Laura Weinrib; Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic; Cato Institute, Amici on Behalf of Appellant(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amir H. Ali , Roderick & Solange, Washington, DC, Easha Anand , Roderick & Solange, San Francisco, CA, Vanessa Del Valle , Roderick & Solange, Bluhm Legal Clinic , Chicago, IL, David F. Oyer , MacArthur Justice Center, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Grant Bakke , Randall J. Bakke , Shawn A. Grinolds , Bradley Neuman Wiederholt , Bakke & Grinolds, Bismarck, ND, for Defendants-Appellees.

Anya Bidwell , Patrick M. Jaicomo , Marie L. Miller , Institute for Justice, Arlington, VA, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s) Institute for Justice.

Jennifer S. Baker , Shoney Blake , Mary Kathryn Nagle , Pipestem & Nagle, Tulsa, OK, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s) National Congress of American Indians.

Rachel A. Chung , Meaghan McLaine VerGow , O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, Sarah Ludington , Duke Law School, First Amendment Clinic, Durham, NC, for Amici on Behalf of Appellant(s) Erwin Chemerinsky, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Genevieve Lakier, Lyrissa Lidsky, Dean, Kermit Roosevelt, Amanda Shanor, Steven H. Shiffrin, Geoffrey Stone, Nadine Strossen, Laura Weinrib.

Jade Gasek , Edward Williams , Tiffany R. Wright , Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic, Washington, DC, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s) Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic.

Clark M. Neily, III , Jay Remington Schweikert , Cato Institute, Washington, DC, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s) Cato Institute.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, GRUENDER and KOBES, Circuit Judges.


Alleging that law enforcement officials shot him with lead-filled bean bags while he was protesting, Marcus Mitchell sued Morton County and various North Dakota state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violating his rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court dismissed Mitchell's...

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