Law's Andrew Geronimo and Jonathan Entin discuss legal concerns surrounding public meeting bans

Cleveland bid to bar resident from public meetings raises First Amendment questions

Signal Cleveland: Andrew Geronimo, director of the CWRU School of Law's First Amendment Clinic, and Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law, discussed the process of barring someone from an open public meeting, with Geronimo calling it a “a very, very extreme remedy,” potentially constituting prior restraint. He said absent threats or violence, such an order would be difficult to justify, though disruption could factor into a judge’s decision.