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LAW REVIEW

Gun Show in Park Rental Facility
not 'Family Entertainment'
By James C. Kozlowski, J.D., Ph.D.

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n the case of Florida Gun Shows, Inc. v. City of Fort Lauderdale, 2019
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26926 (S.D. Fla. 2/19/2019), the city of Fort Lauderdale (the City) had entered into a series of leases over many years
with a private entity, Florida Gun Shows (FGS), to conduct several
gun shows in an auditorium located in a public park. In light of recent mass
shootings at a local high school and airport, the City decided not to honor
the 2019 reservation for an upcoming gun show, because gun shows were
now considered to be inappropriate in a multipurpose rental facility within
a " family friendly " public park.
Defendant FGS petitioned the
federal district court to issue a
preliminary injunction, which
would block " the City from violating its free speech rights and
requires the City to issue license
agreements to the Plaintiff for the
promised future dates for the promotion of gun shows, under the
same terms and conditions that
the City offers to promoters of

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events other than gun shows. "
As illustrated by the opinion
described herein, judicial scrutiny of governmental decisions involving commercial speech in a
revenue-producing, multipurpose
facility for designated events is
much more deferential than regulations involving free speech activities in a traditional public forum,
like a public park. Governmental

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regulation of free speech activities
in a public forum, like a public
park, must be narrowly drawn to
achieve a compelling governmental interest. On the other hand,
governmental regulation of commercial speech in a non-public forum, like revenue-producing leases
for a government-owned auditorium, must simply be reasonable to
pass constitutional muster under
the First Amendment.

Multipurpose Rental Facility
In 2012, the City had issued
the " WMA Policies and Procedures, " which defined the purpose of the War Memorial Auditorium as follows:
To provide a guideline and procedures for the rental of the War



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