No Constitutional Right to Dance in the Jefferson Memorial

So holds the Oberwetter v. Hilliard. The court concluded that

  1. the Jefferson Memorial qualified as a “nonpublic forum” for First Amendment purposes, so that restrictions on speech there were constitutional if they were viewpoint-neutral and reasonable, and
  2. the limitation on conduct in the Memorial “which involve[s] the communication or expression … [and] has the effect, intent or propensity to draw a crowd or onlookers” was indeed viewpoint-neutral and reasonable.

Sounds right to me.

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