Nudity Ban Upheld

A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Nudity-Ban-9CA-ORDER.pdf">upheld</a></strong> San Francisco’s ban on nudity in public places, finding the city’s goals of “preventing distraction and offense to citizens not expecting to be confronted with private parts of other persons’ anatomy” justifies restricting nudists’ free-speech rights.

SAN FRANCISCO – A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld San Francisco’s ban on nudity in public places, finding the city’s goals of “preventing distraction and offense to citizens not expecting to be confronted with private parts of other persons’ anatomy” justifies restricting nudists’ free-speech rights.

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights

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