Legal Opinion
New England Regional Council of Carpenters v. Thomas J. Kinton, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 19, 2002No. 00-2398, 01-1977PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These appeals require us to decide two important First Amendment questions. The first relates to whether a state agency constitutionally may ban all leafletting on a multi-purpose pier that it controls. The second relates to whether such an agency may require a person seeking to distribute handbills on public sidewalks to apply in advance for a permit.
These and other questions arise out of attempts by the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC), a labor organization, to leaflet in locations owned by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), an…
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