Legal Opinion
Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 19, 1992No. 91-538PublishedCited by 934 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
In this case, with its emotional overtones, we must decide whether the free speech guarantees of the First and Fourteenth Amendments are violated by an assembly and parade ordinance that permits a government administrator to vary the fee for assembling or parading to reflect the estimated cost of maintaining public order.
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Petitioner Forsyth County is a primarily rural Georgia county approximately 30 miles northeast of Atlanta. It has *125had a troubled racial history. In 1912, in one month, its entire African-American population, over 1,000 citizens, was driven systematically from the county in…
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