Legal Opinion

Mastrovincenzo v. City of New York

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided January 5, 2006No. Docket No. 04-2264-CVPublishedCited by 166 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

We consider here whether the application of the licensing requirement of the City of New York (the “City”) to unlicensed street vendors of clothing painted with grafitti violates either these vendors’ rights under the First Amendment or a 1997 permanent injunction entered on consent of the City of New York (the “Bery injunction”) by a district court in Bery v. City of New York, No. 94 Civ. 4253(MGC) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 30, 1997). Because we hold that New York City’s licensing requirement is a valid, content-neutral restriction on speech and because we do not…

2Cases cited32 opinions

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3Cited by166 opinions

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