Opinion ID: 70757
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Heading: Attempt to Influence the EEOC Affidavit

Text: 15 The same is true of the claim involving Hubbard's alleged attempt to influence Levent's EEOC affidavit. The district court's order does not make clear whether it found the evidence sufficient for a jury to find that Hubbard knew or contemplated that Levent might be filing an EEOC affidavit, as Levent did eleven months after Hubbard spoke to him in the stairwell. However, even assuming that the district court did find the evidence sufficient for a jury question on that issue, see Johnson v. Jones, --- U.S. ----, ----, 115 S.Ct. 2151, 2159, 132 L.Ed.2d 238 (1995), it nonetheless should have granted Hubbard's motion for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds. Just as no decision clearly establishes that the First Amendment is violated by an unsuccessful attempt to influence protected speech in general, none clearly establishes that it is violated by an unsuccessful attempt to influence an EEOC affidavit in particular.