# Amnesty International, USA v. Battle

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · February 23, 2009 · 559 F.3d 1170

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9416175

## Case

- **Full name:** AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, USA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis BATTLE, Thomas Cannon, Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** February 23, 2009
- **Citations:** 559 F.3d 1170; 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 3489; 2009 WL 425050
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Hull
- **Judges:** Hull, Marcus, Kravitch
- **Cited by:** 85 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Abrogated on other grounds by Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9416175

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “only the case law of the Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit or the law of the highest court of the state where the events took place — in this case, Florida — can 'clearly establish' constitutional rights” (quoting Marsh v. Butler Cnty., Ala., 268 F.3d 1014, 103…
- stating that identification of injured individuals does not apply to First Amendment claims, and the same reasoning can be applied to support that plaintiffs need not allege which subordinates caused the alleged injury in supervisory liability claims under § 1983
- finding that, even if a plaintiff adequately alleges a First Amendment violation, a defendant “will still be entitled to qualified immunity unless those rights were clearly established at the time the violations took place” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- reversing the district court’s order dismissing First Amendment claims when an organization alleged that the defendants directed police officers to take actions that prohibited a demonstration from being seen or heard by audience members or the media
- explaining that § 1983 allows for the recovery of nominal damages when constitutional rights are violated but do not result in injury giving rise to compensatory damages

## Opinion text

HULL, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I specially concur in the judgment reversing the district court’s dismissal of Amnesty’s Second Amended Complaint.

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