CASE PREVIEW · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Murie v Nw. Mich. Coll.
Student-speech retaliation and malicious prosecution in a college dispute
Decided
The citation
Murie v Nw. Mich. Coll., unpublished opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, issued October 30, 2026 (Case No. 26-1152)
From the case summary
In 2019, Murie attempted to attend a student-government meeting despite being told noncredit students were ineligible. After security told him to leave, he called police, who arrested him when he refused to go. The prosecutor dropped the trespass charge, which Murie attributed to false employee…
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