Vosse v. City of N.Y.

Full title: BRIGITTE VOSSE, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK…

Court: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

Date published: Feb 27, 2015

594 F. App'x 52 (2d Cir. 2015)

Opinion

No. 13-4606

02-27-2015

BRIGITTE VOSSE, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK, COMMISSIONER ROBERT D. LIMANDRI, of the New York City Department of Buildings, Defendants - Appellees.

FOR APPELLANT: TIMOTHY L. COLLINS (Gideon Orion Oliver, on the brief), Collins, Dobkin & Miller LLP, New York, NY. FOR APPELLEES: ELIZABETH S. NATRELLA (Pamela Seider Dolgow, on the brief), for Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, NY.

FOR THE COURT: Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

SUMMARY ORDER

RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT'S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION "SUMMARY ORDER"). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 27^th day of February , two thousand fifteen. PRESENT: RICHARD C. WESLEY, PETER W. HALL, GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judges. FOR APPELLANT: TIMOTHY L. COLLINS (Gideon Orion Oliver, on the brief), Collins, Dobkin & Miller LLP, New York, NY. FOR APPELLEES: ELIZABETH S. NATRELLA (Pamela Seider Dolgow, on the brief), for Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, NY.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge).

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the petition for rehearing is GRANTED and the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED in part and REMANDED in part.

Plaintiff-Appellant Brigitte Vosse brought this action against The City of New York and the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Buildings. Vosse alleged that the City infringed her right to free speech by fining her, pursuant to zoning regulations, for hanging an illuminated peace symbol outside her 17th-story condo window. The district court dismissed for lack of standing in a memorandum and order dated November 8, 2013. Vosse now appeals.

For substantially the same reasons stated in the district court's memorandum and order, we AFFIRM the district court's decision as to Vosse's lack of standing to raise a claim of content-based discrimination. However, Vosse also raised an argument, both in the district court and on appeal, that irrespective of content, the City's zoning regulations constituted an unduly restrictive time, place, manner restriction on speech, in violation of the Supreme Court's decision in City of Ladue v. Gilleo, 512 U.S. 43 (1994). Because the district court did not address this argument, we REMAND for the district court to address it in the first instance.

FOR THE COURT:

Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, Clerk