DISCLAIMER: The following unofficial case summaries are prepared by the clerk's office
as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.
103197P.pdf 10/16/2012 Shirley Phelps-Roper v. City of Manchester, Missouri
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-3197
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, for the Court En Banc]
Civil case - First Amendment. The final version of the City's
ordinance regulating the time and place of picketing at funerals and
burials was a legitimate time, place and manner regulation consistent with
the First Amendment, and the district court's order enjoining its
enforcement is vacated. Judge Smith, concurring.
103197P.pdf 10/05/2011 Shirley Phelps-Roper v. City of Manchester, Missouri
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-3197
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Murphy and Smith, Circuit
Judges, and Reade, District Judge]
Civil case - Constitutional law. Plaintiff had standing to challenge city's
ordinance regulating protests near funerals; challenges to earlier versions
of the ordinance were moot; current ordinance violates the First
Amendment under this court's decision in Phelps-Roper v. Nixon, 545
F.3d 685 (8th Cir. 2008). Judge Murphy, concurring in the result.