United States Fifth Circuit
World Wide Street Preachers Fellowship v. Columbia, 08-31196
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant city and officers wrongfully interfered with anti-abortion protests, judgment for defendant-city is affirmed where the district court did not clearly err in finding that there was no persistent, widespread practice of applying inappropriate statutes to demonstrators to restrict their First Amendment rights because of the content of their signs.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/21/2009
- Published 12/21/2009
Judges
- DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Randall L. Wenger (argued), Boyle, Neblett & Wenger, Camp Hill, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Steven W. Fitschen, Nat. Legal Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA, for Amicus Curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Robert McCullen Baldwin, George Adam Cossey, Amanda Jill Futch, Johnny R. Huckabay, II (argued), Hudson, Potts & Bernstein, Monroe, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.