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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Sanchez finds that the district court properly granted summary judgment for the California Exposition and State Fair and the State Fair's General Manager after an individual alleged that state police officers violated the First Amendment and the Speech Clause of the California Constitution when they removed him from a privately organized Hmong New Year Festival for distributing religious tokens to attendees. Officers told the individual that he could distribute his tokens in designated zones, referred to as Free Speech Zones, outside the entry gates but not inside the festival itself. The individual claimed that the fairgrounds constitute a traditional “public forum," with similarities to a public park. The enclosed, ticketed portion of the fairgrounds constituted a nonpublic forum under the United States Constitution and the California Speech Clause. Affirmed.