Legal Opinion
Del Gallo v. Parent
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 25, 2009No. 08-1511PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This case concerns whether the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment compels the U.S. Postal Service to allow campaigning activity for election to public office on a post office sidewalk, constructed and used to give postal patrons access to the door of the post office and distinguishable from neighboring public sidewalks.
Plaintiff Rinaldo Del Gallo, III, a candidate for public office in Massachusetts, brought suit in 2006 seeking to prevent the Pittsfield Post Office from enforcing a Postal Service regulation that restricted his ability to collect signatures for his…
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