Uptown Pawn & Jewelry, Inc. v. City of Hollywood

Uptown Pawn & Jewelry, Inc. (“Uptown”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the City of Hollywood, Florida (“the City”), thereby upholding the City’s policy of not allowing pawn shops, among other types of businesses, to advertise on bus benches on the City’s rights-of-way. 1 In its motion for summary judgment, Uptown asserted that the City’s policy of not allowing pawn shops to advertise on bus benches violated Uptown’s First Amendment rights. 2 The City counter-filed a motion for summary judgment urging that as a nonpublic forum, the City’s policy survived the…