United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action claiming that the City of Orlando's Large Group Feeding Ordinance, as applied to First Vagabonds Church of God and Orlando Food Not Bombs, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Florida Religious Freedom Restoration Act, partial judgment for defendants is affirmed in part where the city could rationally conclude that it can more effectively regulate vendors' conduct in parks directly through contracts or licenses. However, the judgment is reversed in part where: 1) the feedings presented at most an ambiguous situation to an objective reasonable observer and the expressive nature of the conduct was not "overwhelmingly apparent"; and 2) the ordinance was a neutral law of general applicability that serves a rational basis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2010
• Published 07/07/2010

Judges

• J.L. Edmonson

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel