MULTIMEDIA PUB. CO. OF S.C. v. GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AIRPORT DIST.

No. 91-1575.

991 F.2d 154 (1993)

MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING COMPANY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INCORPORATED; New York Times Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AIRPORT DISTRICT; Gary Jackson, in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport Commission, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Turner Case, Butler, Means, Evins & Browne, Spartanburg, SC, argued (Edward G. Smith, on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Wallace K. Lightsey, Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, SC, argued (Carl F. Muller, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge.


OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

The issue is whether a total ban imposed by the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport Commission (the Commission) on the placement of newspaper vending machines (newsracks) inside its airline terminal violated the First Amendment rights of two newspaper companies who challenged the ban in this action. The district court, holding that the terminal was a public forum and applying the First Amendment principles then relevant to that...

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