Second Circuit Review: Recent Decision Extends the Public Forum Doctrine to Public Access Television

Litigation partners Martin Flumenbaum and Brad Karp’s latest Second Circuit Review column, “Recent Decision Extends the Public Forum Doctrine to Public Access Television,” appeared in the March 28 issue of the New York Law Journal. The authors discuss Halleck v. Manhattan Community Access Corporation, in which the court held that several public access television channels in Manhattan qualify as public forums under the First Amendment, even though they are owned by a private corporation. Litigation associate Jeremy Liss assisted in the preparation of this article.