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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Grant finds that the district court improperly ruled in favor of the city with respect to an activist's First Amendment claim in a civil rights action arising after he was banned from city council meetings and arrested for disorderly conduct. The city violated the activist's rights when it indefinitely barred him from city hall, preventing him from attending city council meetings which are a designated public forum. However, the district court correctly found that the officer who enforced the city's ban was entitled to qualified immunity. The officers were not entitled to qualified immunity from the activist's false arrest claims because the activist's actions in yelling, cursing and grabbing his crotch did not amount to probable cause for a disorderly conduct arrest. The city had probable cause to arrest the activist for cyberstalking based on his online posts to a law enforcement blog. Reversed in part.