Karen FINLEY, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller and National Association of Artists' Organizations, Plaintiffs,
v.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS; and John E. Frohnmayer, in his official capacity as Chairperson National Endowment for the Arts, Defendants.
United States District Court, C.D. California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 9, 1992.
June 9, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David Cole, Center for Constitutional Rights; Mary Dorman, Nat. Campaign For Freedom of Expression; Marjorie Heins, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation, New York City; Paul L. Hoffman, Carol A. Sobel, Jon W. Davidson, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal.; Nan D. Hunter, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Ellen Yaroshefsky, Cardozo Law Clinic, New York City, for plaintiffs.
Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Theodore C. Hirt, Mark W. Batten, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Lourdes G. Baird, U.S. Atty., and Stan Blumenfeld, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.
Gloria C. Phares, Sabrina E. Silverberg, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, and Ronald D. Reynolds, and Rita L. Tuzon, Hill Wynne Troop & Meisinger, Los Angeles, Cal., for amici curiae Claes Oldenburg, Hans Haacke, Coosje van Bruggen, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Andres Serrano, Robert Colescott, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Barbara Kruger, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Susan Rothenberg and Bruce Nauman.
Leon Friedman and Edward De Grazia, Cardozo Law School, New York City, for amicus curiae PEN American Center.
Barbara Hoffman, New York City and Stephen F. Rohde, Los Angeles, Cal., for amici curiae PEN American Center and College Art Ass'n.
United States District Court, C.D. California.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
TASHIMA, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are four individual performance artists ("individual plaintiffs") and the National Association of Artists' Organizations ("NAAO"). Individual plaintiffs allege that defendants the National Endowment for the Arts ("NEA") and John E. Frohnmayer ("Frohnmayer"),1 NEA Chairperson, violated their constitutional and statutory rights by improperly denying their applications for NEA...
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