United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-city in a due process case brought by a convicted child molester who was banned from a municipal park is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff did not have a property interest in his park pass; 2) any defamation by the government was not combined with the alteration of plaintiff's legal status; and 3) the ban was rationally related to the legitimate government purpose of protecting children.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/06/2006
• Decided 09/05/2006
• Published 09/05/2006

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth J. Falk (argued), Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, IN, Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Valparaiso, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert T. Keen, Jr. (argued), Diana C. Bauer, Carson Boxberger, Fort Wayne, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.