FIRST VAGABONDS CHURCH OF GOD v. CITY OF ORLANDO

No. 08-16788.

638 F.3d 756 (2011)

FIRST VAGABONDS CHURCH OF GOD, an unincorporated association, Brian Nichols, Orlando Food Not Bombs, an unincorporated association, Ryan Scott Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Markeson, Eric Montanez, Adam Ulrich, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. CITY OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, Defendant-Appellant-Cross Appellee, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, National Legal Foundation, Amicus.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 12, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Maloney Skambis , The Skambis Law Firm, Martha Lee Lombardy , Office of Legal Affairs, City of Orlando, Mayanne Downs , King, Blackell, Downs & Zehnder, P.A., Orlando, FL, for City of Orlando, FL.

Jacqueline Hilary Dowd , Legal Advocacy at Work, Inc., Orlando, FL, Randall C. Marshall , ACLU of Florida, Inc., Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross Appellants.

Eric J. Hager , Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, Nat. Law Ctr. on Homelessness & Poverty.

Steven Werner Fitschen , Nat. Legal Found., Virginia Beach, VA, for Amicus Curiae, The Nat. Legal Found.

Richard Hunt McDuff , Smith, Moore, Leatherwood, LLP, Greenville, SC, Jeffrey A. Simes , Goodwin Procter, LLP, New York City, Anaxet Y. Jones , Goodwin Proctor, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, The Rutherford Institute.

Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, WILSON, PRYOR, MARTIN and BLACK, Circuit Judges.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether a municipal ordinance that limits the number of feedings of large groups that any person or political organization can sponsor in centrally located parks violates the First Amendment. A political organization, Orlando Food Not Bombs, contends that an ordinance that, as applied, restricts the frequency of its feedings of homeless persons in any park within a two-mile radius of the City Hall of Orlando...

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