Legal Opinion
Scroggins v. City of Topeka, Kan.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided February 2, 1998No. 96-4031-SACPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
CROW, Senior District Judge.
This First Amendment case comes before the court on the defendant City of Topeka’s motion for summary judgment. (Dk.22). The plaintiffs bring this suit alleging their First Amendment rights were violated when they were escorted out of a City Council meeting without completing their comments on the Mayor’s appointment of Cecil Washington to the Mayor’s Commission on Families. The defendant City argues it is entitled to summary judgment as the uncontroverted facts establish the non-discriminatory and rational enforcement of the City Council’s…
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