United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to Defendant-City's rules governing street performers in a public park, summary judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed where the rules governed a public forum, had an impermissibly broad scope, and did not meaningfully promote the city's asserted interests.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/24/2009
• Published 06/24/2009

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sarah A. Dunne, American Civil Liberties Union, Seattle, Washington on behalf of amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elena Luisa Garella, Law Office of Elena Luisa Garella, Seattle, WA;  Robert Corn-Revere, and David M. Shapiro, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellee., Gary Keese and Carlton W. Seu, Seattle City Attorney's Office, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellants.