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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Third Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/atheists.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a> that it is unconstitutional for a county to reject an ad displaying the word “Atheists,” along with a group’s name and website. </span>

PHILADELPHIA – The Third Circuit ruled that it is unconstitutional for a county to reject an ad displaying the word “Atheists.”

The county transit system’s policy excluding religious or atheistic messages “discriminated based on viewpoint and violated the First Amendment.

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