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Tattooing Protected as Expressive Speech

By Steven D. Schwinn, Ruthann Robson, Nareissa L. Smith

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In the opinion in Anderson v. Hermosa Beach, the Ninth Circuit found a municipality?s total ban on tattoo parlors unconstitutional. The panel first found that tattooing is expressive activity, rejecting the argument that tattooing was mere expressive conduct entitled to...

Full post as published by Constitutional Law Prof Blog on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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"We hold that tattooing is purely expressive activity fully protected by the First Amendment, and that a total ban on such activity is not a reasonable 'time, place, or manner' restriction."

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