Washington Post Co. v. Turner

MEMORANDUM

GASCH, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the motion of plaintiff The Washington Post Company (“the Post”) for a preliminary injunction. The Post seeks injunctive relief that would prohibit defendant, the General Manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) from enforcing a regulation which bans the sale of newspapers by human vendors on WMA-TA property and that would require defendant to permit human vending of newspapers on terms at least as permissive as those applicable to “free speech activities” under the regulations.

BACKGROUND

I. The…