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Constitutional Law Keyed to Chemerinsky
Airport Comm’rs v. Jews for Jesus
Citation:
482 U.S. 569 (1987)Facts
On July 13, 1983, the Board of Airport Commissioners adopted Resolution No. 13787, which prohibited all “First Amendment activities” within the Central Terminal Area at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). On July 6, 1984, Alan Howard Snyder, a minister for Jews for Jesus, was distributing free religious literature on a pedestrian walkway in the Central Terminal Area when he was stopped by an airport officer. The officer showed Snyder a copy of the resolution, explained that his activities violated it, and requested that he leave LAX, warning that legal action would be taken if he refused. Snyder complied and stopped distributing the literature. Subsequently, Jews for Jesus and Snyder filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the resolution under both California and Federal Constitutions, arguing that it banned all speech in a public forum, was applied in a discriminatory manner, and was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.
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