Ctr. for Investigative Civil Action Reporting v. Se. Pa. Transp. Auth.

I. Introduction

Plaintiff, The Center for Investigative Reporting ("CIR"), has moved for a preliminary injunction to enjoin Defendant, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ("SEPTA"), from enforcing two specific advertising standards. CIR sought to purchase advertising space in and on SEPTA buses to display its journalistic comic strip about disparate lending practices. The advertisement was rejected on the basis of SEPTA's standards at issue-specifically, because it constituted a "political" advertisement and expressed a position on a "matter[ ] of public debate."

For the…