CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY v. CITY OF CLEARWATER

No. 91-3988.

2 F.3d 1514 (1993)

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY FLAG SERVICE ORG., INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CLEARWATER, Milton A. Galbraith, Jr., City Attorney of the City of Clearwater, Cynthia E. Goudeau, City Clerk of the City of Clearwater, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul B. Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, Tampa, FL, Eric M. Lieberman, Edward Copeland, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Alan S. Zimmett, Sargent, Repka & Covert, M.A. Galbraith, Jr., City Atty., Clearwater, FL, Lawrence R. Velvel, Nasha, NH, for defendants-appellees.

Before ANDERSON and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge.


DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a challenge to an ordinance regulating the solicitation of funds by charitable organizations in the City of Clearwater, Florida ("Clearwater"). Plaintiff Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc. ("Scientology") claims that the ordinance deprives it of rights and liberties guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Scientology...

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