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Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence
Supreme Court of the United States (1984) | 82 L. Ed. 2d 221; 104 S. Ct. 3065; 468 U.S. 288; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 136; 52 U.S.L.W. 4986
TL;DR: Demonstrators protesting homelessness sought to sleep in symbolic tents in a national park. The Supreme Court upheld a content-neutral National Park Service regulation prohibiting camping, finding it a reasonable time, place, and manner restriction on expressive conduct.
Legal Significance: This case affirms judicial deference to content-neutral regulations of expressive conduct in public forums and effectively merges the time, place, and manner test with the O'Brien test for symbolic speech, prioritizing governmental interests in park maintenance over the expressive value of the prohibited conduct.