Government,
Communications Law
Dec. 21, 2022
US judge strikes LA Metro’s ban on noncommercial ads
PETA claimed that the MTA policy amounts to a prior restraint on speech and viewpoint discrimination.
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s general prohibition on noncommercial advertising is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled.
“Because Metro’s general prohibition on noncommercial ads fails prong two of the Ninth Circuit’s reasonableness test, it is unconstitutional,” wrote Judge Sunshine S. Sykes of the Central District of California. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Tra...
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