# Charles Wells, III v. City of Grosse Pointe Farms

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · August 4, 2014 · 581 F. App'x 469

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9814890

## Case

- **Full name:** Charles L. WELLS, III, Chapter 7 Trustee, for the BANKRUPTCY ESTATE OF Mary F. ARNONE-DORAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Defendant, and George Loosvelt, Sergeant, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** August 4, 2014
- **Citations:** 581 F. App'x 469
- **Precedential status:** Unpublished
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Merritt
- **Judges:** Merritt, Cook, Donald
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding that reports of threats to the plaintiff’s employer was a foreseeable consequence of her termination and saddled the defendant with the violation of her First Amendment rights
- recognizing an equal protection right to be free from gender discrimination

## Opinion text

MERRITT, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
It seems to me in this case that the police officer-appellant has just as much a First Amendment right to describe the plaintiffs statements and conduct when he stopped her as the plaintiff has to become angry and call him names. • This is just a case of two people becoming angry and letting words fly. The officer’s description of the plaintiffs angry words does not rise to the level of a First Amendment violation, and this case should be stopped in its tracks now. It should not go on to a jury trial.

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