United States First Circuit

In a suit alleging that several provisions of a city's parade ordinance and its mass outdoor gathering ordinance (MOGO) violated the First Amendment, judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) plaintiffs did not have standing to sue regarding the MOGO's alleged defects; 2) there are sufficient alternatives for speech such that the city is not required to provide an indigency exception to the parade permitting fee; and 3) the fee provision does not grant excessive discretion to the police.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2007
• Published 12/14/2007

Judges

• CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen E.F. Langsdorf with whom Sigmund D. Schutz and Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP were on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David G. Webbert with whom Johnson & Webbert, LLP was on brief for appellees.