A Supreme Court decision in the case could be a landmark ruling on associational rights and on the rights of homosexuals. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Residents of the townhomes in Upper Marlboro, Va., are exercising their constitutional rights in hopes of obtaining additional visitor parking spaces. Regular weekend pickets, participants say, resulted from the builder's unwillingness to meet with them. According to Kennedy, the protesters were to discourage prospective buyers of Coscan townhomes.
Residents say they are unwilling to end demonstrations until more is done to increase parking.
Coscan Homes' promise of 47 more parking spaces is an insufficient response to the problem, they say, in light of the company's plans to build 100 more homes.