Courts Should Let You Sue Federal Officials Who Violate Your Right to Record
Briefly

Late last year, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Dustin Dyer's lawsuit against Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers who ordered him to stop recording their pat-down search of his husband.The officers also ordered him to delete what he had already recorded.But the court, using a flawed legal doctrine that limits civil rights lawsuits, ruled that Dyer could not sue the officers for money damages even if they violated his First Amendment right to record on-duty government officials.
Read at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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