Dawn Brown v. Town of Cary

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Analogizing [the plaintiff's] federal civil rights claim to a corresponding action under North Carolina law, we are satisfied that the claim would survive under that statute.”
• allowing a suit for retrospective personal injury to survive under North Carolina survival statute
• “Our first task is to determine whether the [statute] ‘is content based or content neutral.. ..’ ”
• “Our first task is to determine whether the [statute] ‘is content based or content neutral . . . .’ ”
• “[I]f a regulation is ‘justified without reference to the content of regulated speech,’ [citation omitted] ‘we have not hesitated to deem [that] regulation content neutral even if it facially differentiates between types of speech.’”
• “In our view ... such an approach imputes a censorial purpose to every content distinction, and thereby applies the highest judicial scrutiny to laws that do not always imperil the preeminent First Amendment values that such scrutiny serves to safeguard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).