Legal Opinion
Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign v. King County
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 18, 2015No. 11-35914, 11-35931PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WATFORD, Circuit Judge:
The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) submitted an advertisement to run on King County Metro buses in the Seattle metropolitan area. After initially accepting the ad, the County revoked its approval, concluding that displaying the ad would likely result in vandalism and violence disruptive to the bus system. We are asked to decide whether the County’s action violated SeaMAC’s First Amendment rights.
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King County runs Metro, a public mass transit system serving hundreds of thousands of passengers in and around Seattle each day. Metro’s mission is to…
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