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· 3/7/2008

Hold Fast Tattoo, LLC v. City of North Chicago

Citations

  • 580 F. Supp. 2d 656
  • 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18512
  • 2008 WL 656077

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “[t]he act of tattooing ... itself is not intended to convey a particularized message”
  • analyzing tattooing under Spence’s framework based on the premise that “[t]he act of tattooing is one step removed from the actual expressive conduct”
  • “The act of tattooing is one step removed from actual expressive conduct, which is similar to a sound truck, which enables each customer to express a particularized message, but the sound truck vehicle itself is not expressive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: James B. Moran

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