Opinion ID: 620430
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Right of Assembly.

Text: We also agree with the District Court’s conclusion that the Appellants did not adequately raise a violation of their First Amendment right to assemble by merely referencing the issue in briefing and not substantively raising it prior to objecting to the Magistrate’s Report and Recommendation. See Laborers’ Intern. Union of N. Am., AFLCIO v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., 26 F.3d 375, 398 (3d Cir. 1994) (stating that “an issue is waived unless a party raises it in its opening brief, and for those purposes ‘a passing reference to an issue … will not suffice to bring that issue before the court.’”)(internal citations omitted) We will, therefore, not consider Appellants’ First Amendment argument on appeal.