Read GOULART v. MEADOWS, 02-1962

Although plaintiffs' proposed use of a community center (for meetings of a geography club and a fiber arts club ) is afforded First Amendment protection, the county's exclusion of the plaintiffs' proposed uses does not violate the plaintiffs' right to free speech or to equal protection under the First or Fourteenth Amendments.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/26/2003
• Published 09/26/2003

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Michael Paul Farris, Home School Legal Defense Association, Purcellville, Virginia, for Appellants.  Daniel Karp, Allen, Karpinski, Bryant & Karp, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.   BRIEF:  James R. Mason, III, Home School Legal Defense Association, Purcellville, Virginia;  Jordan W. Lorance, Alliance Defense Fund Law Center, Scottsdale, Arizona, for Appellants. Victoria Shearer, Allen, Karpinski, Bryant & Karp, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.