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· 12/19/2003

Robert A. Neinast v. Board of Trustees of the Columbus Metropolitan Library Larry D. Black Vonzell L. Johnson

Citations

  • 346 F.3d 585

How courts have described this case

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

  • referring to the First Amendment right to receive information in public library books as a “fundamental right”
  • upholding no-shoes policy because it avoided “tort claims brought by library patrons who were injured because they were barefoot”
  • Library did not deprive patron of constitutional rights by requiring him to wear footwear

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Judges: Kennedy, Gilman, Gibbons

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