Lawrence Hurley covers the Supreme Court for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a civil rights claim brought by a Texas woman who served on a small-town council and was arrested following her criticisms of a senior official. The ruling gives Sylvia Gonzalez another chance to bring a retaliation claim, with the court sending the case back to a lower court for further proceedings. The case focused on the scope of a 2019 Supreme Court ruling called Nieves v.
Gonzalez was charged with inappropriately removing a government document, identified as a citizen petition she had prepared. Gonzalez said she had not intended to take the document, which was mixed up with her other papers. The charges were eventually dropped, but only after Gonzalez, who has no criminal record, spent a day in jail. She also quit her elected position.
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