Gail Anderson v. Milwaukee County and Milwaukee Transport Services, Inc.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

In this case, filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Gail Anderson alleges that Milwaukee County and Milwaukee Transport Services, Inc., the operator of the Milwaukee County bus system, violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by their “tariff,” which prohibits the distribution of literature on county buses.

Ms. Anderson, a woman in her mid-fifties, lives in Milwaukee. She doesn’t drive a car and so is a regular customer on Milwaukee’s buses. But she is not, it would appear, your typical bus rider. As anyone who rides buses in urban communities knows,…