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COMES NOW the Plaintiff Roy Warden, with his Third Amended Com-
plaint against the Defendants, named and un-named above, and as grounds
therefore alleges:
I. INTRODUCTION
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1983, 42 U.S.C. 1985 and 28 U.S.C. 1343, seeking redress for the
rights. Venue is proper in the 9th District of Arizona as all of the acts
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U.S.C. 1988.
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the Constitution of the United States and the Plaintiffs right to due
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of the United States and was a resident of Pima County Arizona at all
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individually and in his official capacity as City Manager for the City
individually and in his official capacity as City Attorney for the City
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the City of Tucson, under color of state law, regulations, customs and
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and Recreation, under color of state law, regulations, customs and pol-
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icies at all times relevant herein. Defendant Grey is sued in his indi-
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istrator of Tucson Parks and Recreation, under color of state law, reg-
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Defendant in default Tucson May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immi-
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691 (1978)
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of the state under the direction or control of Defendants, and (2) Tucson
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state law, regulations, customs and policies at all times relevant herein.
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Arizona Common Sense and the Director of the Tucson Weekly Public
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Forum.
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18. Plaintiff has spent the last 9 years investigating allegations of mal-
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feasance within the legal and political institutions of Pima County, in-
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cluding the malfeasance of Tucson City Officials who have used their
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public offices (1) to aid and abet, entice and invite, and otherwise to
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supply local contractors with low cost labor, (2) to advance the policy
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America to earn and send home remittances, and (3) to expose the
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Sometime prior to April 10, 2006, Pima County political activist Isabel
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pro raza open border activist groups5 rioted in Armory Park Tucson
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to the United States to earn and send home remittance money7 and
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Isabel Garcia is referred to in the media local media as the Director of Derechos
Humanos.
Isabel Garcia is the Chairman of Arizona Border Rights Foundation.
The local media, and the Tucson Police Department, estimated event attendance
to be 15,000.
On April 10, 2006 Plaintiff, and an estimated 14 other protect the border activists generally referred to as Border Guardians, demonstrated in Armory Park,
Tucson Arizona in opposition to the Mexican government and Tucson City Open
Border Policy.
Currently, the Mexican economy earns more from remittance money than it does
from the sale of oil.
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In the riots aftermath, Isabel Garcia declared8, on the basis that six
pro raza protestors had been arrested for felony assaults on TPD of-
ficers in Armory Park on April 10, 2006, the community had lost
On or about April 13, 2006, Isabel Garcia met with various Tucson
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On April 27, 2006 Defendant Rankin authored and issued the Confi-
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v. City of Portland, 439 F.3d 573 (9th Cir. 2006) and, (2) to regain the
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trust of Pro Raza Open Border groups who were widely reported in
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the local media to have lost trust in the Tucson Police Department
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umented in the After Action Report dated April 26, 2006. (15-
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On May 16, 2006, Isabel Garcia addressed the Tucson Mayor and
Council and denounced the Tucson Police Department After Action
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Prior to the meeting, Isabel Garcia stated, the community has lost trust in the
Tucson Police Department. Upon exiting the meeting Garcia stated, we have
begun to regain trust in the Tucson Police Department.
April 10, 2006, and emphasized her desire to regain trust in the Tuc-
On September 15, 2006, after a 17 day jury trial, the Clerk of the U.S.
martin and Jack Harris against Defendant Miranda, other Tucson City
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the view of Tucson Municipal Court Judge Eugene Hays11 and other
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tion to Tucson City Open Border Policy and the policy of the Mexican
Defendant Garcia described the deplorable conduct of members of her pro-raza
groups on April 10, 2006 as powerful, beautiful, historic, mature, and rejected
outright the Gathright decision as cited by Defendant Mike Rankin in Exhibit 1.
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This allegation is supported by the Affidavits of Steve Aiken, Lee Ewing, Laura
Leighton, and Victor Mergard.
son City Attorney Mike Rankin dated April 12, 2006 which stated, in
sum and substance, that exclusive use permits may not be used to
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geous and totally intolerable in a civilized society, qualify him for the
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tion to Tucson City Open Border Policy and the policy of the Mexican
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son City Attorney Mike Rankin dated April 12, 200612 which stated, in
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sum and substance, that exclusive use permits may not be used to
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Exhibit one.
Rights.
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in default Tucson May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights
(CWIR) and acting under the direction and control of Isabel Garcia,
Armory Park, the site of our annual rally which takes place this year
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In that letter Paul Teitelbaum stated his reasons for requesting exclu-
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On April 26, 2010 the Director of the Tucson Parks and Recreation
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nator for Defendant in default Tucson May 1st Coalition for Worker
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someone access, or request someone leave the designated exclusive use area, it will be your responsibility to ask them to do
so. Should anyone refuse your request you would need to contact Tucson Police Department staff on-site via 911 Should
any individual cause a disturbance or incident while in any
other area of the park that disturbs your exclusive use, Parks
and Recreation staff will ask them to leave or police may be
called to assist should they refuse the request. (emphasis
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On May 1, 2010 Tucson Police Lt. David Azuelo, citing authority un-
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Code Section 21-3(7)(4), and a court order which was no longer in ef-
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fect, denied Plaintiff right of entry into Armory Park, Tucson Arizona,
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to speak in opposition to Tucson City Open Border Policy and the pol-
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letter written by Tucson City Attorney Mike Rankin dated April 12,
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2006 which stated, in sum and substance, that exclusive use permits
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and positioned himself at the corner of south Sixth Avenue and East 13th
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the May 1, 2010 rally area altogether when TPD Sergeants Jack Wool-
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ridge and Johnson threatened him with arrest if he did not move 1,000 feet
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On March 14, 2012 Pancho Medina, acting under the direction and
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The following hand written notation appears at the top of Pancho Medinas letter: Permit # 198079 $655.00 paid in full, 3/14/12.
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On March 14, 2012 Pancho Medina, acting under the direction and
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On March 14, 2012 Defendant Tucson City issued a Tucson Parks and
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Greys letter: Forward to Reenie to work with City Attorney and TPD
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and Ochoa, and other Tucson City Officials, conferred, came to a de-
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City Code 21-4(a)(b) (6) and Tucson City Code Section 21-3(7)(4),
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Worker and Immigrant Rights to bar Plaintiffs entry into Armory Park
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Gray and Ochoa knew such practice was a violation of the law regard-
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Defendant Rankin in his April 12, 2006 memo to Tucson City Manager
Mike Hein.
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On April 27, 2013 Defendant Ochoa sent a cover sheet and an email
ing the exclusive use permit and agreeing it looks fine. (Doc. (15-
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The email chain confirms that the above Tucson Officials conferred,
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came to an agreement, and decided to issue the May 1, 2012 Permit for
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the exclusive use of Armory Park, knowing such practice was a viola-
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Marco Alcantara, Ernesto Valarde, Andy Vera and Jose Gomez met
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Armstrong, and Jim Faas, and Defendant Tucson May 1st Coalition for
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and Pancho Medina and formulated a plan to deny Plaintiff entry into
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Sometime in the early morning of May 1, 2012 just prior to the Rally
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command briefing with other high ranking Tucson Police and City
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late Plaintiffs First Amendment rights later that day in Armory Park.
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acting in accordance with the plans described in paragraph 53, (1) po-
in place, and (3) did block Plaintiff when he attempted to enter to speak
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On May 15, 2014 in Cruz vs. Miranda, C20132985, a case where De-
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Court Judge Christopher Staring found that (c)lear and convincing ev-
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57. On July 31, 2014 Defendant Richard Miranda, facing a growing scan-
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dal and public outrage for his participation in an illegal pension spiking
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tice Monell claims against Defendant City of Tucson, had been re-
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themselves from criminal and civil liability. (Doc 70-1 and Exhibit
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VI. COUNT ONE: VIOLATION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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tiffs entry into Armory Park on May 1, 2012 to exercise his rights
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use permit to Defendant Tucson May 1st Coalition for Worker and
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Defendants Miranda, Rankin, Judge, Grey and Ochoa, and other un-
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known Tucson City Officials, when they failed to take action to pro-
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tect Plaintiffs rights after being put on notice that Plaintiffs rights
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Ochoa, McCarthy, Sayre, Lopez, the City of Tucson, and others who
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67. The actions taken by Miranda, Rankin, Judge, Gray, Ochoa, and other
Tucson City policy makers whose identities are unknown, were the
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and acted in concert for the purpose of denying Plaintiff his rights un-
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1, 2012.
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Defendant Sayre and other Tucson City Officials whose identities are
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1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, whose identities are
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Police Officials whose identities are unknown, when they met in the
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Ochoa, McCarthy, Sayre, Lopez, Tucson May 1st Coalition for Worker
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and Immigrant Rights, Tucson City, and others whose identities are
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unknown who advised and assisted named Defendants, were the prox-
X. CONCLUSION
To borrow a phrase from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Black, this suit tests
the ability of the United States to keep the promises its Constitution makes to
the people of the Nation. Gregory v City of Chicago, 89 S.Ct. 946, 948.
For nearly a century the Federal Courts have energetically protected the
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If we dont protect the rights of the minority among us, someday the govern-
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ment will step in and deny these same rights to the rest of us.
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In Whitney v People of the State of California, 47 S.Ct. 648, 649 the Supreme Court wrote eloquently on the issue of free speech:
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost
of liberty. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and
courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think
as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the
discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and
assembly discussion would be futile;that the greatest menace to
freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty;
and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American
government.
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353, 365, 260, it is only through free debate and free exchange of ideas that
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government remains responsive to the will of the people and peaceful change is
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effected. The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and
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programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from
blatant disregard for the right of free political expression has finally come to
Tucson Arizona.
and employment of coercive acts to (1) silence the voice of political and other
dissent, (2) protect a long standing enterprise to aid and abet and otherwise
encourage the unlawful entry and exploitation of Mexicos poor, (3) hide from
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the basis of cronyism and not on the basis of their fitness to hold public office,
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and (4) to shield public officials from civil and criminal liability by losing or
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the public interest in government transparency & the rule of law, and repugnant
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Our Founding Fathers established the Courts for perilous times such as
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these. During the great Civil Rights era, the Courts protected the political rights
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of the American people so they could organize, assemble and accomplish what
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in effect was a peaceful revolution; Plaintiff earnestly prays this Court will do
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no less now.
XI. PRAYER FOR RELIEF
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A)
Declare Tucson City Code Section 21-4(a)(b)(6) and Tucson City Code
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Order Chief of Police Chris Magnus to provide all Tucson Police De-
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and reasonable, for (1) the harm and violation of rights Plaintiff has suf-
fered as set forth above, (2) the emotional distress Plaintiff has suffered
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under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United
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tives of their power and acting in a similar malicious and unlawful man-
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Grant such additional relief as the Court deems just and proper.
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/Roy Warden/
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EXHIBIT ONE
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EXHIBIT TWO
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EXHIBIT THREE
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