Am. Freedom Defense Initiative v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge Henderson.
Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge:
The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer, 1 sought to run advertisements in Metrorail stations and on Metrobuses in the Washington, D.C. area. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) refused the advertisements because they violated a then-recently adopted moratorium on issue-oriented advertising in the Metro system. AFDI sued both WMATA and its then-general manager, Jack Requa, 2 claiming WMATA's refusal to display its advertisements violated its…
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