OCCUPY NASHVILLE v. HASLAM

No. 13-5882.

769 F.3d 434 (2014)

OCCUPY NASHVILLE, et al., Plaintiffs, Paula Elaine Painter; Lauren Marie Plummer; Adam Kenneth Knight; William W. Howell; Darria Hudson; Katy Savage, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William HASLAM, et al., Defendants, William L. Gibbons, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety; Steven G. Cates, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Dawn M. Jordan , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants. C. David Briley , Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Dawn M. Jordan , Heather C. Ross , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants. C. David Briley , Bone Mcallester Norton, PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, Thomas H. Castelli , ACLU Foundation of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, Tricia Herzfeld , Ozment Law, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: SENTELLE, BENTON and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

JORDAN, Circuit Judge.

In October 2011, a group of protesters calling themselves "Occupy Nashville" established an around-the-clock presence on the Nashville War Memorial Plaza (the "Plaza") in Nashville, Tennessee, with the aim of bringing attention to disparities in wealth and power in the United States.1 Occupy Nashville v. Haslam, 949 F.Supp.2d...

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