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COLLIN v. SMITH

Nos. 78-1381, 78-1385.

578 F.2d 1197 (1978)

Frank COLLIN and the National Socialist Party of America, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Albert SMITH, President of the Village of Skokie, Illinois, John N. Matzer, Jr., Village Manager of the Village of Skokie, Illinois, Harvey Schwartz, Corporation Counsel of the Village of Skokie, Illinois and the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a Municipal Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Goldberger, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Harvey Schwartz and Gilbert Gordon, Skokie, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before PELL, SPRECHER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee, the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) is a political group described by its leader, plaintiff-appellee Frank Collin, as a Nazi party. Among NSPA's more controversial and generally unacceptable beliefs are that black persons are biologically inferior to white persons, and should be expatriated to Africa as soon as possible; that American Jews have "inordinate . . . political...

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