( July 21, 2025, 1:30 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a former superintendent of the New York department that regulates insurance is entitled to qualified immunity on the National Rifle Association of America’s (NRA) First Amendment coercion and retaliation claims against New York state officials and the department “because of the markedly attenuated link between facially valid law enforcement against a third-party associate and an infringement of a plaintiff's First Amendment rights” and reversed a lower federal court’s order denying the former superintendent and the department’s motion to dismiss the NRA’s suit alleging that she unconstitutionally threatened or coerced an insurer or other entities to stifle its speech....