Legal Opinion
City of Watseka v. Illinois Public Action Council
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 18, 1986No. 84-2605PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 declaratory judgment that the ordinance was constitutional. The district court held that the ordinance violated the First…
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