WILCHER v. CITY OF AKRON

No. 06-3848.

498 F.3d 516 (2007)

Rose WILCHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF AKRON; Donald Plusquellic, Mayor; and Time Warner Cable Northeast, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jacquenette S. Corgan, Daniel J. Leffler, c/o Law Office of Warner Mendenhall, Akron, Ohio, for Appellant. David A. Muntean, City of Akron Department of Law, Akron, Ohio, Jonathan B. Fellows, Bond, Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, New York, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Jacquenette S. Corgan, Daniel J. Leffler, Warner D. Mendenhall, c/o Law Office of Warner Mendenhall, Akron, Ohio, for Appellant. David A. Muntean, Stephen A. Fallis, City of Akron Department of Law, Akron, Ohio, Jonathan B. Fellows, Bond, Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, New York, for Appellees.

Before: MERRITT and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges; LAWSON, District Judge.


OPINION

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Rose Wilcher, a producer of public access programming, claims that Time Warner Cable rules for submitting public access programs violate her First Amendment right of free speech. The specific regulations she challenges are a $25 fee for each tape submitted for broadcast on Time Warner's public access channel and a requirement that the person submitting the program live in the geographic...

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