New York State Association of Realtors, Inc. And Clifford Hall v. Gail S. Shaffer, Individually and as Secretary of State of the State of New York

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide primarily whether a regulation banning the solicitation of residential property owners by real estate brokers and salespersons in designated geographic areas, ostensibly as a means for combating the evil known as “blockbusting,” violates the free speech rights of realtors under the First Amendment to the Constitution. In concluding that it did not, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Spatt, J., declared, inter alia, the statute authorizing the creation of so-called nonsolicitation zones or areas, N.Y.…