Legal Opinion
Tagami v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 8, 2017No. 16-1441PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Sonoku Tagami celebrated “GoTopless Day 2014” by walking around the streets of Chicago naked from the waist up, though wearing “opaque” body paint on her bare breasts. She was cited for violating a Chicago ordinance prohibiting public nudity. She responded with this lawsuit alleging that the ordinance is unconstitutional. She contends that banning women from exposing their breasts in public violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and amounts to an impermissible sex-based classification in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection…
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