Zapach v. Dismuke

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• explaining that “there can be little doubt that” commentary offered during a public zoning hearing “is protected under the First Amendment”
• Zoning Hearing Board had significant interest in orderly conduct of its meeting
• “Under clearly established law, the official conducting a public meeting has the right to stop any speaker whose speech became irrelevant, as a valid content-neutral restriction.”
• speech on matters related to zoning ordinances during a zoning hearing board was protected speech

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).