United States Eighth Circuit

Missouri Department of Corrections policy banning cameras and tape recorders from executions does not violate the First Amendment since it is a reasonable time, place and manner restriction on speech which upholds a substantial governmental interest and does not unreasonably limit alternative avenues of communication.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/09/2004
• Published 07/09/2004

Judges

• BOWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BOWMAN and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Earl Robert Schultz, St. Louis, Missouri (Sarah Rubenstein, St. Louis, Missouri, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Eugene Cook Pritchett, AAG, argued, Jefferson City, Missouri, for appellee.