Stephens
Stephens v. City of Spokane
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM *
Calvin Stephens and Stanley Edward Hayes, III, on behalf of themselves and a putative class (collectively, Stephens), appeal the district court’s order granting summary judgment to the City of Spokane, Washington and Spokanimal C.A.R.E., on Stephens’s claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . We affirm.
We construe Spokane Municipal Code § 10.03.060 as a whole to mean that a violation is established if a person allows an animal “unreasonably” to disturb an animal control officer or individual residing within 300 feet by “habitually barking, howling, yelping, whining or making other oral noises.” SMC § 10.03.060(A), (B) (2007). In other words, subsection (B) builds on, and is informed by, subsection (A). Therefore, the ordinance, which prescribes a civil infraction, adopts an objective standard that is not unconstitutionally vague. See Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 U.S. 104, 109-14 , 92 S.Ct. 2294 , 33 L.Ed.2d 222 (1972); Cameron v. Johnson, 390 U.S. 611 , 615-16 & n. 7, 88 S.Ct. 1335 , 20 L.Ed.2d 182 (1968); City of Seattle v. Eze, 111 Wash.2d 22 , 759 P.2d 366, 369-70 (1988); cf. City of Spokane v. Fischer, 110 Wash.2d 541 , 754 P.2d 1241, 1242-43 (1988) (striking down a…