No. 18-17

Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2018-07-03
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (2) Experienced Counsel
Tags: 1st-amendment campus-speech civil-rights college-campus constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech public-forum public-sidewalk public-street sidewalk sidewalk-access sidewalk-restrictions
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (from Petition)

Except in the unique setting of a military installation, this Court has never held that a public sidewalk running alongside a public street was anything but a traditional public forum. Here, the Eleventh Circuit reached a contrary result. The questions presented are:

1. Does the presence of adjacent college campus buildings negate the First Amendment public forum status of a sidewalk running along a public street?

2. Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding that a virtual ban on leafletting and street preaching on a public sidewalk is not likely to violate the First Amendment right to free speech?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the presence of adjacent college campus buildings negate the First Amendment public forum status of a sidewalk running along a public street?

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Alliance Defending Freedom, et al. GRANTED.
2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-20
Reply of petitioner Rodney Keister filed.
2018-08-02
Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Alliance Defending Freedom, et al.
2018-08-02
Brief of respondents Stuart Bell, et al. in opposition filed.
2018-07-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 2, 2018)

Attorneys

Alliance Defending Freedom and Young America's Foundation
David Andrew CortmanAlliance Defending Freedom, Amicus
Rodney Keister
Jay Alan Sekulow — Petitioner
Stuart Bell, et al.
Sybil Vogtle NewtonStarnes, Davis, Florie LLP, Respondent