Legal Opinion
Timothy T. Ryan, Jr. v. County of Dupage, and Sheriff Richard P. Doria and Deputy Sheriff Miller, Individually and in Their Official Capacities
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 19, 1995No. 93-3893PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This appeal by the plaintiff in a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires us to consider the limits of the right of protest in a courthouse. The plaintiff, Timothy Ryan, was the Democratic candidate for DuPage County Clerk of Court and the president of Court Crusade, a “watchdog” group that investigates corruption and impropriety in the court system and that had vigorously protested about the air quality at the DuPage County Courthouse, which the group believed to be infested by the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ Disease and which it attributed to (in Ryan’s words) “the…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- Thornhill v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
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