FIRST VAGABONDS CHURCH OF GOD v. CITY OF ORLANDO

No. 08-16788.

610 F.3d 1274 (2010)

FIRST VAGABONDS CHURCH OF GOD, an unincorporated association, Brian Nichols, Orlando Food Not Bombs, an unincorporated association, Ryan Scott Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Markeson, Eric Montanez, Adam Ulrich, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. CITY OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, Defendant-Appellant-Cross Appellee, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Amicus.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 6, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Maloney Skambis, Christopher C. Skambis, Skambis Law Firm, Martha Lee Lombardy, Office of Legal Affairs, Mayanne Downs, King, Blackell & Downs & Zehnder, P.A., Orlando, FL, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross Appellee.

Glenn Michael Katon, ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Tampa, FL, Jacqueline Hilary Dowd, Legal Advocacy at Work, Inc., Orlando, FL, Randall C. Marshall, Amer. Civ. Liberties Union of Fla., Inc., Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross Appellants.

Eric J. Hager, Conrad & Scherer, LLP, Washington, DC, Steven Werner Fitschen, Nat. Legal Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA, for Amicus.

Before EDMONDSON, BARKETT and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.


EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

This case is about a local government regulating the manner in which some of its parks are used. We decide whether the City of Orlando's Large Group Feeding Ordinance, as applied to First Vagabonds Church of God and Orlando Food Not Bombs, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. We also decide whether the ordinance, as applied to First Vagabonds Church of God, violates the Florida Religious Freedom...

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