The lawyer for a “citizen journalist” who won a reversal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the opinion bolsters First Amendment rights for everyone.

“It’s an important decision for free speech and a free press,” JT Morris of JT Morris Law in Austin told Law.com on Thursday. “The opinion recognizes that if officials criminalize routine journalism, they cannot avoid accountability for such a clear First Amendment violation.”

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