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CITY OF WATSEKA v. ILLINOIS PUBLIC ACTION COUNCIL

No. 84-2605.

796 F.2d 1547 (1986)

CITY OF WATSEKA, County of Iroquois and State of Illinois, a Home Rule Municipality, and Ernest A. Grove, Mayor of Watseka, individually and in his Official Capacity, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ILLINOIS PUBLIC ACTION COUNCIL and American Civil Liberties Union, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. Swanson, Sebat, Swanson, Banks, Lessen & Garman, Danville, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jane M. Whicher, Roger Baldwin Fnd. of ACLU, Inc., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The City of Watseka passed a solicitation ordinance which, among other provisions, limited door-to-door soliciting to the hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The Illinois Public Action Council, whose activities the new ordinance affected, advised the city that it believed the ordinance violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. The city filed this action seeking a...

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