The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of a city in a First Amendment challenge to a curfew order in Knowlton v. City of Wauwatosa. In 2020, a police officer shot and killed a black teenager. After the District Attorney’s (DA) office decided not to criminally charge the officer, and anticipating that this decision might spark violence in the community, the mayor issued a limited curfew order that went into effect after the DA’s announcement. The curfew temporarily restricted pedestrian and vehicular traffic on city streets for five nights and ran from 7 pm to 6 am with exceptions for people traveling to and from work, government officials, the press, and social workers.