The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a retaliatory arrest claim brought by an elderly Texas city councilwoman who says she was arrested for misplacing a petition she circulated criticizing the city manager and pushing for his removal.
The justices agreed Friday to hear the case, Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino et al., brought by Sylvia Gonzalez of Castle Hill, Texas, a town of just under 4,000 people.
“They still succeeded in their goal. Gonzalez was so hurt by the experience and so embarrassed by the media coverage of her arrest, that she gave up her council seat and swore off organizing petitions or criticizing her government,” her lawyers told the court. Mayor Edward Trevino and other individuals launched an investigation and eventually had her arrested on a misdemeanor charge of “intentionally destroy, conceal, remov, or otherwise impair the verity, legibility, or availability of a government record.”
The three-judge panel reasoned that for her to be able to sue the individuals, she needed to show another person — like herself — who was engaged in the same kind of actions but not arrested in order to reveal unequal treatment.
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