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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. McCafferty grants in part a police chief's motion for judgment on a woman's claims after she was arrested for trespassing that her rights were violated in retaliation for her criticism of city officials and policies, after she sought information about why her home's tax assessment was raised by over 50% and officials failed to provide the information she requested. The woman's claims of violation of her substantive due process rights don't meet the high threshold of shocking the conscience required to be viable claims. She also fails to support some of her claims that her right to free speech and right to procedural due process were violated. Her argument regarding civil conspiracy of the chief and his employees is not viable because the chief and his employees work together, and therefore can't be considered conspirators with each other. However, her claim that the chief's arrest of her was a retaliatory arrest is not dismissable because the chief ordered her arrest by overruling the judgment of other officers, which suggests his choice to arrest her was not entirely objective.