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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA 

JOSHUA D. BRIGGS, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

OREAN YI, et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 3:22-cv-00265-SLG 

ORDER RE REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION OF ORDER GRANTING 

PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT 

Before the Court at Docket 74 is Plaintiff Brigg’s Request for 

Reconsideration of Order Granting Partial Summary Judgment. The Court has 

reviewed the request and declines to reconsider its order, as the Court is not 

persuaded that it made a manifest error of law. Of note, the Court finds that one 

of the cases Plaintiff cites, Miller v. City of Excelsior, Minnesota, 618 F. Supp. 3d 

820 (D. Minn. 2022), is inapposite. That case, and the other cases it cites, involved 

ordinances that prohibited all unpermitted amplified sound that can be heard at the 

property line from where the sound emanates. In invalidating the ordinance, the 

district court noted that “[m]ost problematically, the ordinance’s reach is not limited 

to loud, raucous, or disturbing sound . . . .It forbids amplified sound of just about 

any audible volume.” The district court added it would thus extend to a person’s 

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use of a cell phone’s speaker feature while walking on the sidewalk.1 Here, in 

contrast, the ordinance applies only to noise that is “loud enough to inhibit the 

ability of the average person in the same place to converse freely without leaving 

the public place.”2 

Accordingly, the motion to reconsider at Docket 74 is DENIED. 

DATED this 28th day of August, 2023, at Anchorage, Alaska. 

/s/ Sharon L. Gleason 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

1 Miller, 518 F. Supp. 3d at 835. 

2 AMC 8.30.129(B)(2). 

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