Brown v. Government of the District of Columbia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ELBERT L. BROWN, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Civil No. 15-cv-1380 (KBJ) ) GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT ) OF COLUMBIA, ) ) Defendant. ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION In the case of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Ariz.,

135 S. Ct. 2218

(2015), the Supreme Court of the United States applied strict scrutiny to evaluate whether an ordinance that restricted town members’ displays of outdoor signs based on the communicative content of those signs violated the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. See

id. at 2231. The Supreme Court held…