9th Circus does something useful
We read:
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled Friday that a federal district court should have considered whether a Gilbert, Ariz., sign ordinance unconstitutionally discriminates against religious signs among all non-commercial signs. The court sent the case, filed by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund who represent Good News Community Church, back to district court for a decision.
“Churches shouldn’t be discriminated against by a city’s sign ordinances,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman, who argued the case before the 9th Circuit on April 15. “The government cannot require churches to abide by stricter rules than it places on other non-commercial signs. The Constitution prohibits government officials from singling out religious groups for that kind of discrimination.”
In its opinion in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, the 9th Circuit wrote that “Gilbert has adopted a sign ordinance that makes one’s head spin to figure out the bounds of its restrictions and exemptions.”
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Could it be that sanity has finally come to the 9th Circus? Nahh. Impossible...
Impossible. Its just the broken clock pointing out the correct time.
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All the court did was send the case back to the trial court. The 9th Circuit ruled that the ordinance dealing with the signs was not against the 14th amendment and not entirely against the 1st amendment.
The court instructed the federal court to have a trial on whether the restriction on the church's signs were more restrictive than other non-commercial, informative signs.
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