A man who attended a raucous winter sports festival in the remote mountains of Alaska lost his First Amendment case at the U.S. Supreme Court May 28 against the officers who arrested him.
Because there was probable cause for the arrest of “Arctic Man” attendee Russell Bartlett in 2014, his retaliatory arrest claim fails as a matter of law, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the court.
“For a cop on the street, this a pretty easy opinion to live by,” said Lisa Soronen, executive director of the State and Local Legal Center, which supported the officers ...
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