# Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Watt

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · March 9, 1983 · 703 F.2d 586

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7849914

## Case

- **Full name:** The COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior The COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** March 9, 1983
- **Citations:** 703 F.2d 586; 227 U.S. App. D.C. 19
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Robinsoniiiwright
- **Judges:** Bork, Edwards, Ginsburg, III, Key, MacKinnon, Mikva, Robinson, Scalia, Tamm, Wald, Whom, Wil, Wilkey, Wright
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed by Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 U.S. 288 (1984).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7849914

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- rejecting the notion that sleeping in public parks is expressive conduct about the plight of the homeless

## Opinion text

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.

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