Brown v. Gov't of D.C.

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge *117In the case of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Ariz. , --- U.S. ----, 135 S. Ct. 2218, 192 L.Ed.2d 236 (2015), the Supreme Court of the United States applied strict scrutiny to evaluate whether an ordinance that restricted town members' displays of outdoor signs based on the communicative content of those signs violated the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. See id. at 2231. The Supreme Court held that content-based laws governing speech in public forums "are presumptively unconstitutional and may be justified only if the…