United States Seventh Circuit

In a civil rights suit alleging that plaintiff's First Amendment rights were violated by city ordinances regulating the distribution of handbills, judgment finding the ordinance unconstitutional is affirmed and award of compensatory damages is reversed where: 1) the ordinance was a content-neutral restriction on the time, place, and manner of speech that did not meet the constitutional requirements that it serve a substantial government interest, be narrowly tailored, and provide adequate alternative channels of communication; but 2) on remand, the issue of damages should be revisited with attention to actual injuries, if any, suffered by plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/19/2008
• Decided 08/07/2008
• Published 08/07/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Mauck, Mauck & Baker, Chicago, IL, Jason R. Craddock (argued), Sauk Village, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., William P. Hardy (argued), Hinshaw & Culbertson, Springfield, IL, Heidi L. Eckert, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.