Legal Opinion
Seattle Affiliate of October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality v. City of Seattle
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 12, 2008No. 06-35597PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge FISHER; Dissent by Judge IKUTA.
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
We are presented with a conflict between those who wish to conduct a parade on Seattle’s city streets — a forum historically preferred by people who want to demonstrate their messages of honor, celebration or, as in this case, protest — and the city’s interests in traffic safety. The City of Seattle by ordinance gives its police chief, when issuing a parade permit, the discretion to require marchers to use the sidewalks instead of the city streets. *791The issue is whether the ordinance violates the free speech guarantees of…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Garrison v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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- Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican PartySupreme Court of the United States · 2008
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