The Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who forcibly removed a protester from the Vermont House floor is entitled to qualified immunity. The ruling was unsigned but split 6-3 on ideological grounds, with the liberal justices dissenting. The protester, Shela Linton, claimed that Jacob Zorn violated her Fourth Amendment protections against excessive force. Zorn appealed to the Supreme Court after a lower court found the case could proceed to trial. The court's decision to allow the case to proceed led to public dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, accusing her conservative colleagues of taking a one-sided approach towards police officers in qualified immunity disputes.