NEW YORK STATE ASS'N OF REALTORS, INC. v. SHAFFER

No. 1276, Docket 93-9160.

27 F.3d 834 (1994)

NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, INC. and Clifford Hall, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Gail S. SHAFFER, Individually and as Secretary of State of the State of New York, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Wallender, Albany, NY (Barbara G. Billet, Goldson & Radin, Commack, NY, of counsel), for appellants.

August L. Fietkau, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of NY, New York City (G. Oliver Koppell, Atty. Gen. of the State of NY, Frederic L. Lieberman, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of NY, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before: OAKES, MESKILL and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide primarily whether a regulation banning the solicitation of residential property owners by real estate brokers and salespersons in designated geographic areas, ostensibly as a means for combating the evil known as "blockbusting," violates the free speech rights of realtors under the First Amendment to the Constitution. In concluding that it did not, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...

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