United States Ninth Circuit

An emergency order prohibiting access to downtown Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization conference was a constitutional time, place, and manner restriction on free speech on its face.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/06/2004
• Decided 06/02/2005
• Published 06/02/2005

Judges

• Before RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and ROSLYN O. SILVER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Lobsenz, Carney Badley Spellman, P.S., and Aaron H. Caplan, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Seattle, WA, for appellants Victor Menotti, Thomas Sellman, Todd Stedl, and Doug Skove., Steve W. Berman, Hagens Berman LLP, Seattle, WA, Arthur H. Bryant, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Oakland, CA, and Michael E. Withey, Stritmatter Kessler Whelan Withey Coluccio, Seattle, WA, for appellants Kenneth Hankin, Jennifer Hudziec, Stephanie Lane, Denise Cooper, and Nicole Pearson.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ted Buck, Stafford Frey Cooper, P.C., Seattle, WA, for the appellees.