Initiative & Referendum Institute v. United States Postal Service

ORDER AFFIRMING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, United States District Court Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs, nonprofit organizations and individuals who are engaged in efforts to place initiatives on state ballots, challenged a United States Postal Service (hereinafter “Postal Service”) regulation that prohibited the solicitation and collection of signatures for petitions, polls, or surveys on all postal-owned property. Plaintiffs sought a determination that the regulation violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment on its face and as it applied to them. The…