BOURGEOIS v. PETERS

No. 02-16886.

387 F.3d 1303 (2004)

Roy L. BOURGEOIS, Jeff Winder, Becky Johnson, Eric Lecompte, School of the Americas Watch, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bobby PETERS, Willie L. Dozier, Consolidated Government of Columbus, Georgia, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 15, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald R. Weber, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Atlanta, GA, William P. Quigley, Loyola University Law Clinic, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

James C. Clark, Jr., Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford, P.C., Clifton C. Fay, Jaimie Briggs DeLoach, Columbus, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, BIRCH and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs in this case are an organization called "School of the Americas Watch" ("SAW") and several of its members, including SAW's founder, Rev. Roy Bourgeois. The group engages in various forms of nonviolent protest, seeking to pressure the federal government to cut funding to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, better known as the "School of the Americas" (SOA). The SOA is run by the United States Army and housed...

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