OPENING THE FLOODGATES? Court: Injured officer can sue Black Lives Matter organizer. “A Louisiana police officer injured during protests over the 2016 killing of a black man can sue a Black Lives Matter organizer on the grounds he acted negligently by leading people to block a highway, a federal appeals court has ruled.”

UPDATE: Oops, someone sent me this and I didn’t notice the date, which was from last year. But Eugene Volokh kindly corrected me and writes: “There’s a cert. petition pending now, see https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-1108.html; it’s scheduled to be considered at the late September conference. It’s a very interesting First Amendment issue, with a weird tort law overlay (having to do with the firefighter’s rule), see, e.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areason.com+mckesson&oq=site%3Areason.com+mckesson&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.3096j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8.”