sought to exclude. See, e.g., Mote, 423 F.3d at 444 (explaining that “internal” or “external” standards of review apply depending on type of speaker excluded in designated public forum); Goulart v. Meadows, 345 F.3d 239, 250 (4th Cir.2003) (same); Warren v. Fairfax Cnty., 196 F.3d 186, 193-95 (4th Cir.1999) (same). Here, the City did not exclude either a specific speaker or a specific class of speech, but closed a designated public forum by disallowing all private expression from its flag standards. It is important to our resolution of this case that the Supreme Court has recognized that “a state is not required to indefinitely retain the open character of [a designated public forum].” Perry Educ. Ass’n, 460 U.S. at 46, 103 S.Ct. 948; see also Cornelius, 473 U.S. at 802, 105 S.Ct. 3439 (<HOLDING>); Currier v. Potter, 379 F.3d 716, 728 (9th
holding that a permissive forum selection clause containing a waiver of any claims of forum non conveniens amounts to a mandatory forum selection clause at least where the plaintiff chose the designated forum recognizing that government is not required to retain open nature of designated public forum holding that a public high school newspaper was a limited public forum not a traditional or designated public forum because there was no evidence that the school permitted indiscriminate use by the general public quoting hazelwood sch dist v kuhlmeier 484 us 260 267 108 sct 562 98 led2d 592 1988 holding that a courthouse was a nonpublic forum but an unenclosed courthouse plaza was a designated public forum recognizing that where plaintiff is from the forum state and defendant is from an alternate forum each forum can claim a connection to one of the parties