Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a private speaker does not forfeit constitutional protection simply by combining multifarious voices”
• recognizing Supreme Court’s authority for independent appellate review of constitutional facts without deference to trial courts
• observing that abstract art and instrumental music are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment
• noting that the “principle of speaker’s autonomy was simply not threatened in” PruneYard
• marching in a parade in support of gay and lesbian rights
• “[W]e must thus decide for ourselves whether a given course of conduct falls on the near or far side of the line of constitutional protection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).