Louisiana Debating and Literary Ass'n v. City of New Orleans

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

At issue are whether the district court abused its discretion in not abstaining from hearing this challenge by four clubs against application to them of a newly enacted City of New Orleans ordinance prohibiting, inter alia, discrimination in places of public accommodation; and, absent an abuse of discretion, whether the clubs had priváte status of such a nature that such application, to include the ordinance’s investigative and public hearing procedures, is violative of First Amendment “protection] against unjustified government interference with an…