Grider v. Abramson

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HEYBURN, District Judge.

This action arises out of police procedures used during the Ku Klux Klan grievance rally and the opposition’s Unity Rally held on April 18, 1996. Plaintiffs are two members of the public who wanted to attend the rallies and possibly make their own speeches. Plaintiffs claim through 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that authorities violated their First Amendment rights of free speech and association by various unnecessary and overly restrictive crowd control methods. Defendants counter that the methods were constitutionally permissible even under the strictest…