Legal Opinion
Finley v. National Endowment for the Arts
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1996No. Nos. 92-56028, 92-56387 and 92-55089PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge BROWNING; Dissent by Judge KLEINFELD.
JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller were refused fellowships under the defendant National Endowment for the Arts’ (“NEA”) solo performance artists program. They filed suit, alleging, among other things, that a provision of the NEA’s governing statute .identifying the standard for approval of funding applications violated the Fifth and First Amendments because it was impermissibly vague and imposed content-based restrictions on protected speech. The district court agreed,…
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