Legal Opinion
Sutliffe v. Epping School District
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 17, 2009No. 08-2587PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This unusual First Amendment case grows out of a dispute over access to government channels of written and electronic communication to conduct an ongoing debate over government spending in the Town of Epping, New Hampshire.
A citizens group that advocates reduced spending, Epping Residents for Principled Government (“ERPG”), along with its chairman Thomas Sutliffe and another member, in 2006 brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various Town and school official defendants.1 The complaint was later amended in 2007 to add as plaintiffs three other Town residents who…
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