The group behind a controversial advertising campaign designed for public transportation in major cities has defeated SEPTA’s policy that kept its ads off of Philadelphia-area buses after bringing a First Amendment challenge in federal court.
Although the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s “anti-disparagement standard” was “certainly laudable,” U.S. District Judge Mitchell Goldberg of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled the policy is a violation of the First Amendment.
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