United States First Circuit

In a case to determine whether a city ordinance that prohibits standing, sitting, staying, driving, or parking on median strips violates the First Amendment constitutional guarantee of "the freedom of speech," the district court's permanent injunction barring the ordinance's enforcement is affirmed where the ordinance does violate the constitution because it indiscriminately bans virtually all expressive activity in all of the City's median strips and thus is not narrowly tailored to serve the City's interest in protecting public safety.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2015
• Published 09/11/2015

Judges

• BARRON

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel