Certiorari Sought For 1st, 4th Amendment Issues Over Livestreaming Traffic Stops

Mealey's (November 14, 2023, 7:50 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A North Carolina man who was prevented by police from livestreaming a traffic stop asks the U.S. Supreme Court to confirm that his rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were violated, arguing in a reply brief supporting his bid for certiorari that a police department’s attempts to distinguish between recording and livestreaming “are immaterial” to the matters of free speech and qualified immunity at issue in the parties’ competing certiorari petitions....