CHURCH OF THE KU KLUX KLAN v. KERIK

No. 02-9418.

356 F.3d 197 (2004)

CHURCH OF the AMERICAN KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, Reverend Jeffrey L. Berry, Reverend James W. Sheeley, and Jane Doe and Richard Roe, Jane Doe and Richard Roe being members of the American Knights, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Bernard KERIK, Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York, and The City of New York, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 20, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald E. Sternberg (Leonard Koerner, Rachel Goldman, of counsel; Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, on the brief), Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, for Appellants.

Beth Haroules (Arthur N. Eisenberg, Norman Siegel, of counsel), New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Appellees.

Before: JACOBS, CABRANES, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

Defendants, the City of New York and its Police Commissioner,1 appeal from a grant of summary judgment to plaintiffs, the Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Reverend Jeffrey L. Berry, the Reverend James W. Sheeley, and Jane Doe and Richard Roe (collectively, "American Knights") entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Harold Baer, Jr.,...

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