Legal Opinion
Collin v. Smith
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 23, 1978No. 77 C 2982PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
DECKER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, the National Socialist Party of America and its leader, Frank Collin, bring this action challenging three ordinances of the Village of Skokie, Illinois, on the grounds that the ordinances deprive them of their rights to freedom of speech and assembly in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Defendants are the Village itself and its President, Village Manager and Corporation Counsel. On October 21, 1977, the court denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction but ordered the…
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3Cited by24 opinions
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