John Sefick v. Richard Gardner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding lobby of courthouse is nonpublic forum
• “The lobby of the courthouse is not a traditional public forum or a designated public forum, not a place open to the public for the presentation of views.”
• “No one doubts that displays in courtrooms and adjacent corridors may be limited to the icons of government, such as seals and flags, and that judges may insist that all those present behave in a dignified manner.”
• “the GSA decided that for security and aesthetic reasons it will not authorize displays of any kind in the lobby of the Dirksen Courthouse. Today the nature and message of a sculpture is irrelevant; none will be displayed.”
• classifying federal courthouse lobby as nonpublic forum
• disposing of case at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Huminski v. Corsones
  Second Circuit· 2005-01-18· cited 234×
• Janet Bell v. City of Boise
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-03-07· cited 198×
• Huminski v. Corsones
  Second Circuit· 2004-10-07· cited 161×
• Verlo v. Martinez
  Tenth Circuit· 2016-04-08· cited 76×
• Anatol Zukerman v. USPS
  D.C. Circuit· 2020-06-09· cited 47×
• Robert C. Braun v. Leverett Baldwin
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-10-10· cited 38×
• Edwards v. Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-08-22· cited 32×
• Carmen J. Cardona v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2014-03-11· cited 12×
• Hernandez v. County of Monterey
  N.D. California· 2015-04-14· cited 12×
• Mercier v. City of La Crosse
  W.D. Wisconsin· 2003-07-14· cited 8×
• TinleySparks, Inc. v. Village of Tinley Park
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-05-11· cited 8×
• DiLoreto v. Downey Unified School District Board of Education
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-11-08· cited 7×
• Wandering Dago Inc. v. New York State Office of General Services
  N.D. New York· 2014-01-15· cited 6×
• Driftless Area Land Conservancy v. Rural Utilities Service
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-07-19· cited 6×
• Braun v. Terry
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2015-11-30· cited 4×
• Albrecht v. Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
  N.D. Illinois· 2004-10-01· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  Second Circuit· 2001-08-22
• Braun, Robert C. v. Baldwin, Leverett
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-10-10
• National Wildlife Refuge Association v. American Transmission Company LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-07-19

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,797×
• Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 2,855×
• Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 1,935×
• United States v. Grace
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 1,050×
• United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1968-11-25· cited 896×
• Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-18· cited 501×
• Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-04· cited 498×
• In the Matter Of: Unr Industries, Inc., Debtors. Appeals of Unarco Bloomington Factory Workers
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-05-27· cited 218×
• Parks v. Pavkovic
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-02-05· cited 104×
• Albert R. Piarowski v. Illinois Community College District 515, Prairie State College
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-05-10· cited 87×
• Chicago Acorn, Seiu Local No. 880, and Ted Thomas v. Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-07-21· cited 82×
• Sefick v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 1979-11-30· cited 14×
• Sefick v. Gardner
  N.D. Illinois· 1998-02-12· cited 3×