[DOWNLOAD] "Grider V. Abramson" by Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Grider V. Abramson
- Author : Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 18, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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The plaintiffs-appellants, William Jonathan Grider ("Grider") and Lesa F. Watson ("Watson"), have challenged the district court's dismissal, via summary judgment for the defendants, of their civil rights complaint asserting deprivations of their First Amendment liberties, and other federally created rights, allegedly caused by official actions taken by defendants-appellees City of Louisville Mayor Jerry E. Abramson, Louisville Police Chief E. Douglas Hamilton, the City of Louisville ("Louisville" or "the City"), Jefferson County Judge-Executive David L. Armstrong, Jefferson County Corrections Chief Ron Bishop, Jefferson County Police Chief Ron Ricucci, and Jefferson County Sheriff James Vaughn. *fn1 The plaintiffs faulted the creation and implementation of an emergency crowd control plan designed to enforce civic order in downtown Louisville on April 13, 1996, during a rally sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan ("the Klan" or "the KKK"), and a second, contemporaneous and geographically proximate counter-demonstration organized by Klan opponents. The plaintiffs have claimed that the planned extraordinary security measures, labeled the "KKK Rally Detail" (or "the plan"), denied them protected free speech and association within a police-secured zone which encompassed both rally sites as well as the plaintiffs' business office, and obstructed their engagement in constitutionally safeguarded interstate commerce. The district court ruled that the record evidence could not support a finding that any action taken by any defendant infringed any constitutional guarantee. Grider v. Abramson, 994 F. Supp. 840 (W.D. Ky. 1998).