Legal Opinion
Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial v. Roger G. Kennedy, Director, National Park Service
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 6, 1997No. 95-5393PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge:
The National Park Service prohibits the sale of a number of items, among them t-shirts, on the National Mall. Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial challenged that prohibition as a violation of the First Amendment and prevailed in the district court. We reverse.
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The Mall is an approximately two-mile long strip of national parkland situated in the midst of Washington, D.C. • It is the site of monuments marking great figures and events in our nation’s history. At the west end sits the Lincoln Memorial, flanked to…
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