United States Second Circuit

A city owned-plaza was not a traditional public forum, and a performing arts center's policy (and its application to a union's proposed activities) limiting organized public expression is constitutionally permissible as both viewpoint neutral and reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/17/2002
• Decided 11/18/2002
• Published 11/18/2002

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before: CABRANES, STRAUB, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael T. Anderson, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Boston, MA (Jamin R. Sewell, Office of the Counsel, Local 100, H.E.R.E., AFL-CIO, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Christopher Dunn, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY (Arthur Eisenberg, on the brief) and Mark Lopez, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for amici curiae New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathleen Alberton, for Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY (Larry Sonnenshein, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, et. al., Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose L.L.P., New York, NY (Stefanie S. Kraus, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.