Jane DOE, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
George D. SMALL, Mayor of the City of Ottawa, Illinois; Barbara J. Lindquist, William C. Ferguson, Alan R. Howarter and William N. Stevenson, Members of the City Council of the City of Ottawa, Illinois; and the City of Ottawa, Illinois, a municipal corporation, Defendants,
The Ottawa Jaycees, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 7, 1990.
Decided May 28, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joseph R. Lundy, Deborah A. Golden, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Harvey M. Grossman, Jane M. Whicher, Roger Baldwin Foundation, Chicago, Ill., Donald S. Rothschild, Rothschild & Associates, Oak Park, Ill., Elmer Gertz, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.
D.J. Sartorio, Mitchell A. Orpett, Michael J. Meyer, Tribler & Orpett, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.
Cynthia Photos Abbott, Joel G. Chefitz, Patrick J. Lamb, Katten, Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, Ill., George C. Hupp, Jr., Hupp, Lanuti, Irion & Martin, Ottawa, Ill., Robert K. Skolrood, Nat. Legal Foundation, Virginia Beach, Va., for defendant-appellant.
Judson H. Miner, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Sylvia Neil, Chicago, Ill., for amicus curiae American Jewish Congress.
James D. Holzhauer, Robert A. Helman, Thomas C. Berg, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., Jeffrey P. Sinesky, Steven M. Freeman, Jill L. Kahn, Richard E. Shevitz, Michael A. Sandberg, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, New York City, for amicus curiae Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Before CUMMINGS and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and GORDON, Senior District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
The Ottawa Jaycees ("Jaycees") appeal from the district court's final judgment prohibiting them and the defendant City of Ottawa, Illinois, from mounting in a public park their annual yuletide display of sixteen large paintings depicting various events in the life of Jesus Christ. 726 F.Supp. 713. Finding an absence of any issue of material fact, Celotex Corp. v. Catrett,477 U.S...
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