Legal Opinion
Recycle for Change v. City of Oakland
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 9, 2017No. 16-15295PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
Recycle for Change (“RFC”), a California non-profit corporation, challenges the City of Oakland’s (“Oakland”) ordinance regulating unattended donation collection boxes (“UDCBs”) as inconsistent with the First Amendment. RFC sought a preliminary injunction from the district court, which the court denied. RFC appeals that order. Assuming UDCBs constitute protected speech or expressive conduct—an issue we do not decide—we hold that RFC is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its First Amendment claim because the ordinance is content neutral and survives intermediate…
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