United States Tenth Circuit

Non-sectarian holiday display constituted government speech when city built, paid for, and erected the display, and city may exclude private messages without violating 1st Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2001
• Published 07/02/2001

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BRISCOE, Circuit Judges, and MURGUIA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert R. Tiernan, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stanley M. Sharoff, Assistant City Attorney (J. Wallace Wortham, Jr., City Attorney, with him on the brief), Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellees.