First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City v. Salt Lake City Corp.

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• holding that Salt Lake City could not both retain a pedestrian easement over part of a street and permit the Mormon Church to ban speech activities on the land
• noting that, “[a]s with any public forum, the City may enact reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions”
• holding that where the government sells land to a private religious organization but maintains a pedestrian ease- ment on the land, the First Amendment speech clause applies even though the private party holds title to the land
• stating that City may relinquish easement so property becomes entirely private
• finding the fact that easement served same purpose as public sidewalk “a persuasive indication that the easement is a traditional public forum”
• “The government cannot simply declare the First Amendment status of property regardless of its nature and its public use.”

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