Legal Features
TRI's Complaint in Payden-Travers v. Talkin; Dept. Of Justice's Motion to Dismiss
Insisting that the government can dictate where people can engage in religious activity, the Department of Justice is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit, Payden-Travers v. Talkin, filed by attorneys for The Rutherford Institute challenging a 2013 regulation which broadly prohibits expressive activity in the plaza fronting the U.S. Supreme Court’s building. The regulation was issued in response to a June 2013 ruling in another lawsuit, Hodge v. Talkin, filed by Rutherford Institute attorneys in which a federal district court declared a 60-year-old statute banning expressive activities on the Supreme Court plaza “unreasonable, substantially overbroad, and irreconcilable with the First Amendment.”
Click here to read The Rutherford Institute’s complaint in Payden-Travers v. Talkin
Click here to read the Dept. of Justice’s motion to dismiss