Missouri billboards ruling [Eighth Circuit]

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Missouri billboards ruling [Eighth Circuit]

August 22, 2006 09:11:00 pm

Passions Video, Inc. v. Nixon, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, August 21, 2006 [ruling that a Missouri law banning sexually suggestive billboards on highways was an unconstitutional infringement on commercial free speech]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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