United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1099 v. City of Sidney

AMENDED OPINION

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1099 (“Local 1099”) and twelve of its members, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 against defendants-appellees after they were prohibited from soliciting signatures for a referendum petition outside six polling places on election day in Sidney, Ohio. These polling places included four public schools, the local Y.M.C.A., and a church. At each location, members of Local 1099 attempted to solicit signatures in areas on school or private property that were outside of the areas that had…