Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak)

Because I believe that Amtrak, a governmental entity now authoritatively determined to be subject to First Amendment limitations, see Lebron v. National R.R. Passenger Corp., — U.S. —, 115 S.Ct. 961, 130 L.Ed.2d 902 (1995), has violated the First Amendment by its rejection of the political advertisement that Michael Lebrón contracted to display on a billboard in Penn Station, I respectfully dissent.

The Court’s dismissal of Lebron’s lawsuit rests on two premises, both of which, in my view, are flawed. The first concerns the identification of the forum for purposes of applying public forum…