FIGHTING FINEST, INC. v. BRATTON

No. 1600, Docket 95-9042.

95 F.3d 224 (1996)

FIGHTING FINEST, INC.; Carl Schroeder, President; Daniel O'Leary, Director; Edward Hernandez; Ray Rivera; John Farrell; Dave Siev; Dino Perez; Walter Doyle; Derrick Hernandez; Al Valejeo; Patrick Cullen; Scott Baker; Michael Kelly; Thomas Byrne; Phil Hannah; Steve Damiani, Police Officers; John McCann; Dwight Hovington; Tony Pena, Detectives, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William BRATTON, Commissioner, New York City Police Department; Raymond Kelly, former Commissioner, New York City Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary Carroll, Carroll & Friess, New York City, submitted a brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Pamela Seider Dolgow, David Drueding, John Hogrogian, New York City, submitted a brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, JACOBS, Circuit Judge, and CHATIGNY, District Judge.


JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This appeal primarily presents the issue of whether the bulletin boards of municipal police stations are limited public forums for purposes of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs-appellants Fighting Finest, Inc. ("FFI"), Carl Schroeder, and other individuals associated with FFI appeal from the September 18, 1995, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Leonard B. Sand, Judge). The District Court dismissed...

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