Legal Opinion
Locurto v. Safir
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 27, 2001No. Docket Nos. 00-7628, 00-7632, 00-7634PublishedCited by 282 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
On a Sunday afternoon in September 1998, 80 or so people, including two of the plaintiffs, attended a barbecue hosted by the third plaintiff in Broad Channel, Queens, New York. This social occasion was the genesis of a racist float entered the following day in Broad Channel’s annual Labor Day parade. All three plaintiffs actively participated on the float, they say, as an exercise of their First Amendment right of freedom of speech. When the defendant Mayor of New York became aware of plaintiffs’ participation in the float, he indicated they would be fired from their…
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