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District Court Ruled that Airmont Political Sign Law Violates Free Speech

By Steven Silverberg and Katherine Zalantis

The District Court ruled in Withers v. The Village of Airmont that the Village of Airmont sign ordinance violated a political candidate?s First Amendment right to free speech. There, plaintiff was a candidate running for office of the 12th Legislative District of the County of Rockland in the 2007 election and in connection with his campaign, he posted hundreds of signs. The Airmont deputy mayor and trustee Joseph Meyers was also a candidate for the same position. On August 14, 2007, another trustee Maureen Schwarz, who identified herself as campaign manager for ?Friends of Joe Meyers,? sent plaintiff a letter requesting that he remove his signs from the Wal-Mart shopping center claiming that Meyers had the exclusive right to post signs there...continue to full post

Full post as published by New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).

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