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Inflatable rat's rights recognized on appeal

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Inflatable rat's rights recognized on appeal: In a unanimous ruling issued today, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has held that a township's sign ordinance violates the First Amendment right to free speech and is overbroad.

The ordinance had been used to prohibit a union from displaying as part of its labor protest a large inflatable rat as a symbol of labor unrest. As a Google image search reveals, the inflatable rat is quite a popular symbol these days.

Update: In early news coverage of the ruling, The Associated Press reports that "NJ township can't declare inflatable rat a pest."

And The Newark Star-Ledger has a news update headlined "Union rat is protected as free speech, N.J. top court rules."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).

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