CHICAGO ACORN v. METROPOLITAN PIER AND EXPOSITION

Nos. 98-1939, 98-1977.

150 F.3d 695 (1998)

CHICAGO ACORN, SEIU Local No. 880, and Ted Thomas, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. METROPOLITAN PIER AND EXPOSITION AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Strauss (argued), Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Michele Odorizzi (argued), Mayer, Brown & Platt, Renee Benjamin, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Chicago, IL, for Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

We have an appeal and a cross-appeal from an injunction that restricts the right of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) — the Illinois governmental unit that owns Navy Pier in Chicago — to limit the exercise of free speech by people who frequent the pier. The plaintiffs want to engage in a range of expressive activities there — leafletting, soliciting signatures on petitions, carrying signs and banners, wearing...

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