Wendy Allen Ayres v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• noting that items “do not lose their [First Amendment] protection by being-sold rather than given away.”
• noting that the “case would be in a different posture if the designation had been limited to Grant Park.”
• noting that message-bearing t-shirt is to peddler “what the New York Times is to the Sulzbergers and the Oschses — the vehicle of her ideas and opinions”
• “[Where] the challenged regulation seems likely to obliterate the plaintiffs message, the existence of less restrictive alternatives that would protect the valid regulatory interest is material to the constitutional issue.”
• “There are unquestionable benefits from regulating peddling, First Amendment or otherwise, [including] the control of congestion.”
• “there is no question that the T-shirts are a medium of expression prima facie protected by the free-speech clause of the First Amendment, and they do not lose their protection by being sold rather than given away”

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