CHRIST'S BRIDE MINISTRIES, INC. v. SEPTA

No. 96-1829.

148 F.3d 242 (1998)

CHRIST'S BRIDE MINISTRIES, INC., Appellant v. SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY; Transportation Display's Inc.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mathew D. Staver, Frederick H. Nelson (Argued), Nicole Arfaras Kerr, Orlando, FL, James T. Owens, Westchester, PA, for Appellant.

William H. Roberts (Argued), Jordana Cooper, Daniel H. Wheeler, Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, Philadelphia, PA, Seth Kreimer, Philadelphia, PA, David Rudovsky, Kairys & Rudovsky, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.

Tina Kowalsky Haut, New York City, for Appellee Transportation Display's Inc.

C. Neil Peterson, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Before: GREENBERG, ROTH and WEIS, Circuit Judges


OPINION OF THE COURT

ROTH, Circuit Judge:

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) refused to display an advertisement stating that "Women Who Choose Abortion Suffer More & Deadlier Breast Cancer." We must decide in this appeal whether, in doing so, SEPTA, a regional transportation authority, violated the First Amendment rights of the advertiser, Christ's Bride Ministries, Inc. (CBM). The district court found, after conducting a bench...

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