Legal Opinion
Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. Kerik
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 20, 2004No. 02-9418PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.
Defendants, the City of New York and its Police Commissioner,1 appeal from a grant of summary judgment to plaintiffs, the Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Reverend Jeffrey L. Berry, the Reverend James W. Sheeley, and Jane Doe and Richard Roe (collectively, “American Knights”) entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Harold Baer, Jr., Judge), dated November 19, 2002. The District Court found New York’s anti-mask statute, New York Penal Law § 240.35(4), invalid under the First Amendment. Church of…
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