United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit for infringement of free speech, false arrest, and excessive use of force, grant of summary judgment to the defendants on all counts is affirmed where 1) the regulation of speech advocating jury nullification inside a courthouse was a reasonable time, place and manner regulation, and 2) taking a picture of an officer and threatening to sue him created probable cause to effectuate an arrest in a court house setting.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/27/2003
• Decided 10/10/2003
• Published 10/10/2003

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, POSNER, and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter W. Stern (Argued), Union Grove, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John F. Jorgensen (Argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.