INTERN. SOC. FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS v. N. J. SPORTS

Civ. No. 78-734.

532 F.Supp. 1088 (1981)

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, INC., and Angus Murphy, etc., Plaintiffs, v. NEW JERSEY SPORTS AND EXPOSITION AUTHORITY, The New York Football Giants, Inc., and Cosmos Soccer Club, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

September 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bergen County Chapter, American Civil Liberties Union by Anne M. Nelson, Trenton, N. J., for plaintiffs; and Anderson & Rubin by Leonard H. Rubin, New York City, of counsel.

Zazzali, Zazzali & Whipple by James R. Zazzali, Newark, N. J., for defendants Authority.

Alfred W. Roberts by John F. Marshall, Jersey City, N. J., for defendant Giants; Kelley, Drye & Warren by Richard J. Concannon, and Paul F. Doyle, New York City, of counsel.

Fischer, Kagan, Klein, Giampara & Miller by Jay D. Fischer, Clifton, N. J., for defendant Cosmos; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison by Max Gitter, and Sidney H. Stein, New York City, of counsel.


OPINION

BIUNNO, District Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority (Authority) may have and enforce a policy forbidding the solicitation of money and the distribution of literature and other goods in exchange for a solicited donation, at the Meadowlands Sports Complex (Sports Complex) without thereby contravening the First Amendment as applied to the...

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