Supreme Court to hear First Amendment retaliation case involving former Castle Hills councilwoman

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a former Castle Hills councilwoman who sued city officials following her arrest on a tampering charge after criticizing the city manager.

Sylvia Gonzalez, 76, partnered with thein September 2020 to file a federal lawsuit against the City of Castle Hills to “vindicate her First Amendment rights.”

Two months after presenting the petition and an investigation by the Castle Hills Police Department regarding a meeting involving Gonzalez, another city councilwoman, Rapelye, Mayor J.R. Trevino and Sgt. Paul Turner,for misplacing a document in her binder at a council meeting. The document was the petition to remove Rapelye from office. City officials argued that Gonzalez had stolen her own petition from Trevino as she was gathering her papers at the end of a council meeting.

“I didn’t think this could happen in America,” Gonzalez said in a press release. “No one should be arrested for standing up for what they believe in. I’m hopeful that the Supreme Court will hold the city accountable so that no one else will have to go through what I went through.”

 

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