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· 8/28/2015

Harold Hodge v. Pamela Talkin

Citations

  • 419 U.S. App. D.C. 111
  • 799 F.3d 1145
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 15190
  • 2015 WL 5058322

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  • holding that the statute’s second clause “does not ‘fail[] to provide a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited’” (alteration in original
  • concluding that Supreme Court plaza was not converted into designated public forum based on inconsistent enforcement of prohibition on assembly and display
  • concluding that overbreadth challenge was “analytically identical” to plaintiff’s challenge to the reasonableness of the restriction on his speech and declining to separately evaluate the issue
  • concluding that statute restricting expressive assemblages at Supreme Court plaza reasonably served government’s interest in avoiding even the “appearance of a Court subject to political pressure” (emphasis in original)
  • observing that “the Supreme Court plaza’s status as a nonpublic forum is unaffected by the public’s unrestricted access to the plaza at virtually any time”
  • observing that “the Supreme Court plaza’s status as a nonpublic forum is unaffected by the public’s unrestricted access to the plaza at virtually any time”

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Judges: Henderson, Srinivasan, Williams

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