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SEFICK v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 79 C 4896.

485 F.Supp. 644 (1979)

John SEFICK, Plaintiff, v. The CITY OF CHICAGO, Mayor Jane Byrne, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, Mrs. Mary Cummings, Executive Director of the Chicago Council on Fine Arts and Rose Farina, Coordinator of Programs and Exhibits, the Chicago Council on Fine Arts at the Daley Center, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

November 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Goldberger, Barbara P. O'Toole, The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Daniel G. Welter, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Plaintiff John Sefick has brought this action challenging a decision by defendant Rose Farina to revoke permission to display certain of his sculptures at the lobby of the Richard J. Daley Civic Center in Chicago. Sefick alleges that the permit revocation violated his freedom of speech rights as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. He seeks both injunctive...

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