Legal Opinion
Boardley v. United States Department of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 6, 2010No. 09-5176PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.
BROWN, Circuit Judge:
It is unlawful to engage in expressive activities within any of this country’s 391 national parks unless a park official first issues a permit authorizing the activity. Michael Boardley argues this licensing scheme is overbroad and therefore unconstitutional on its face. We agree. The regulations in their current form are antithetical to the core First Amendment principle that restrictions on free speech in a public forum may be valid only if narrowly tailored. Because these regulations penalize a substantial amount of…
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