AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION v. SPOKANE TRANSIT

No. 17-35955.

929 F.3d 643 (2019)

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION LOCAL 1015, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SPOKANE TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 2, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Andrew McPhee (argued) and John T. Drake , Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee PLLC, Spokane, Washington, for Defendant-Appellant.

Michael Persoon (argued), Despres Schwartz & Geoghegan Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge.


OPINION

This case concerns a First Amendment challenge by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1015 ("ATU") to the Spokane Transit Authority ("STA")'s decision, under its advertising policy, not to run a proposed advertisement from the union on STA's buses. After a court trial, the district court held that STA unreasonably...

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