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).