Legal Opinion
Hoover v. Wagner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 2, 1995No. 94-1699PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief against a Milwaukee state judge and the city’s chief of police. It is brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and charges infringement of the right to free speech conferred by the First Amendment. The plaintiffs are two anti-abortion demonstrators plus a journalist who reports on anti-abortion demonstrations and who, we infer from his having joined with the other plaintiffs in bringing the suit, is sympathetic to their position. The suit seeks a declaration that the injunction which the state judge issued in the case of State v.…
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