United States Sixth Circuit

Ordinance requiring solicitors to register with city before canvassing private homes for the "purposes of advertising, promoting, selling and/or explaining any product, service, organization or cause" is neither unconstitutionally overbroad nor vague, and narrowly tailored to serve significant government interests of preventing fraudulent solicitation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2001
• Published 02/20/2001

Judges

• Before MERRITT, KENNEDY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul D. Polidoro (argued and briefed), Law Office of Paul D. Polidoro, Patterson, NY, Susan B. Gellman (briefed), Wolman, Genshaft & Gellman, Columbus, OH, Richard D. Moake (briefed), Associate General Counsel, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., Patterson, NY, for Plaintiffs., Barry M. Byron (briefed), Willoughby, OH, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Abraham Cantor (argued and briefed), Concord, OH, for Defendants.