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Speech

An Arkansas state trooper is not entitled to qualified immunity on a free-speech retaliation claim, the Eighth Circuit affirmed, saying Arkansas law does not punish the use of vulgar language: in this case, arresting a man for telling the trooper: “Fuck you.”

ST. LOUIS — An Arkansas state trooper is not entitled to qualified immunity on a free-speech retaliation claim, the Eighth Circuit affirmed, saying Arkansas law does not punish the use of vulgar language: in this case, arresting a man for telling the trooper: “Fuck you.”

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