Legal Opinion
Gay Guardian Newspaper v. Ohoopee Regional Library System
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided November 19, 2002No. 6:02cv00104PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In this case a publisher seeks 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983/1985-based damages and injunc-tive relief against a library alleged to have violated his First Amendment rights by removing his publication from its “free-literature” lobby table. Doc. ## 1, 3. The library and individual defendants deny liability and insist that plaintiff Ronald Marcus 1 is not entitled to injunctive relief. Doc. ## 18-20.
II. BACKGROUND
None of the material facts are in dispute. 2 The Ohoopee Regional Library System 3 (the Library), permitted The Gay Guardian (a homosexual-rights…
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