Dykes Sue Over Parade

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Organizers of this Saturday's Dyke March in Costa Mesa are suing the city, claiming it has put so many demands on the parade it amounts to a refusal.

The suit, filed in Federal Court by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California on behalf of the Orange County Dyke March, seeks immediate redress.

"The city's permit scheme is clearly unconstitutional," said Martha Matthews, Bohnett Attorney with the ACLU of Southern California. "The Costa Mesa permit scheme invites the very evils the First Amendment forbids: it vests public officials with unbridled discretion to determine who may speak in the public streets and parks and under what conditions, thus allowing the city to favor speech they support and disfavor speech they oppose."