A QUAKER ACTION GROUP v. MORTON

No. 24845.

460 F.2d 854 (1971)

A QUAKER ACTION GROUP et al., Appellants, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of Interior, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. James F. Fitzpatrick, William A. Dobrovir, Ralph J. Temple and Mrs. Hope Eastman, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants. Mr. William Basil Calomeris also entered an appearance for appellants.

Mr. L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Messrs. Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Joseph M. Hannon and Gil Zimmerman, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before McGOWAN, LEVENTHAL and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.


LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court granting appellees' motion for summary judgment. We reverse and remand for trial.

A. Prior Rulings of This Court

In 1967, a regional director of the National Park Service, a part of the Department of the Interior, released a memorandum that henceforth a permit would be required in fact for any gatherings in Lafayette Park and on the White House sidewalk, a requirement...

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