Legal Opinion
Chicago Acorn, Seiu Local No. 880, and Ted Thomas v. Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 21, 1998No. 98-1939, 98-1977PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 clothing festooned with symbols and slo gans, chanting, speechifying — all to the end of advocating an increase in the minimum wage. They wanted…
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