150 F. Supp. 2d 508 - Okwedy v. Molinari’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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1. “If, as [ Hammerhead and X-Men ] held, public officials who did not have decisionmaking authority in a matter had a right to persuade others not to deal with certain individuals or to participate in disseminating their message ... [defendants in the present case] cannot be found to have acted unconstitutionally [just] because their efforts to persuade [PNE] were successful.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Docket No. 01-7941

2. “Molinari did not have decisionmaking authority over billboards... [and prior Second Circuit caselaw] emphasized the importance of this fact in finding that the First Amendment rights of the plaintiffs in those cases had not been violated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Docket No. 01-7941

3. “[w]here comments of a government official can reasonably be interpreted as intimating that some form of punishment or adverse regulatory action will follow the failure to accede to the official's request.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Docket No. 01-7941