The Putnam Pit, Inc. Geoffrey Davidian v. City of Cookeville, Tennessee Jim Shipley

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• holding that a municipality engages in viewpoint discrimination if it refuses to link newspaper webpage to the city's website solely because the newspaper sought to expose municipal corruption
• recognizing that while “the First Amendment protects information gathering, it does not provide blanket access to information within the government’s control”
• recognizing that while “the First Amendment protects information gathering, it does not provide blanket access to information within the government’s control”
• holding that a municipality engages in viewpoint discrimination if it refuses to link newspaper webpage to the city’s website solely because the newspaper sought to expose municipal corruption
• finding a designated public forum where the government “intentionally open[s] a nontraditional public forum for public discourse”
• rejecting a res judicata defense because the events underlying plaintiff’s claims occurred after the filing of a previous, related action

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