United States Seventh Circuit

A city may not constitutionally ban one of its citizens from public property based on its discovery of that individual's immoral thoughts. A lifetime ban on a sex offender from all park property violates the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2004
• Decided 06/27/2003
• Published 06/27/2003

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER, COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE, MANION, KANNE, ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, EVANS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth J. Falk (Argued), Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jerome L. Withered (Argued), Withered & Corrigan, Lafayette, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.