NATIONAL FEDERATION OF BLIND OF MISSOURI v. CROSS

No. 98-3789.

184 F.3d 973 (1999)

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF MISSOURI, a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, Gary L. Wunder, an individual; Edwin C. Bryant, an individual; John Ford, an individual, Plaintiffs, National Federation of the Blind, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Denise CROSS, in her official capacity as Director of the Division of Family Services of the State of Missouri; Sally L. Howard, in her official capacity as Deputy Director and Supervisor of the Rehabilitation Services for the Blind of the State of Missouri, Defendants-Appellees, Mae E. Weston, in her official capacity as District Supervisor of the North St. Louis Office of the Rehabilitation Services for the Blind, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Frank Goldstein, Baltimore, MD, argued (C. Christopher Brown, Baltimore, MD and Mary Ann Wymore, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Paul Michael Rauschenbach, Assistant Attorney General, St. Louis, MO, argued, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before LOKEN, HANSEN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

The Rehabilitation Services for the Blind (RSB) is a Missouri state agency which receives federal funding and which developed a policy prohibiting its employees from distributing literature or discussing services offered by consumer groups such as the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and its local affiliate, National Federation of the Blind of Missouri (NFB-Mo). NFB and NFB-Mo brought this action against state officials for violating the...

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