Brown v. Palmer

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court’s July 20, 1988 judgment declaring that certain bar letters were issued to plaintiffs in violation of their First Amendment rights. 689 F.Supp. 1045. The bar letters were issued after plaintiffs refused to cease distributing leaflets at Peterson Air Force Base (“Peterson AFB”) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during open houses held in 1985 and 1986 to celebrate Armed Forces Day. Because Peterson AFB was not a public forum at the time that plaintiffs were distributing their leaflets, and because the restrictions on plaintiffs’ speech…