Court Opinion

ID: 7849914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 17:20:30.403842+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:28:58.666270
License: Public Domain

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Chief Judge, and J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
We join in reversal, and in Judge Mikva’s opinion with a caveat to one branch of its First Amendment analysis. As the opinion explains convincingly, sleeping in tents at the demonstration sites is a vivid and forceful component of the public message the demonstrators seek to convey; it summons First Amendment scrutiny because, qua sleeping, it is expressive. We intimate no view as to whether sleeping would implicate the First Amendment were it not to add its own communicative value to the demonstration.