US EditionDC favored Black Lives Matter over anti-abortion groups in 'defacement' rules, court rules
- A federal appeals court ruled that Washington violated anti-abortion protesters' rights by selectively enforcing a ban on sidewalk messages, allowing Black Lives Matter protesters to write chalk messages while denying the same right to the anti-abortion group.
- The court found that the district had discriminated against the anti-abortion group based on their viewpoint by arresting individuals who wrote "Black Pre-Born Lives Matter" while allowing "Black Lives Matter" messages without repercussions.
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D.C. Dealt More Harshly with Pro-Life Protesters than Black Lives Matter, Federal Court Rules - The Michigan Star
by Madeleine Hubbard Washington, D.C., unfairly enforced its “defacement” ordinances by dealing more harshly with pro-life protesters than with Black Lives Matter activists, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. “In the summer of 2020, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the District to proclaim ‘Black Lives Matter,'” the court wrote in its decision, obtained by Fox News. “Over several weeks, the protesters covered streets, sidewal…
Washington DC ‘selectively enforced’ ordinance against pro-life group while ignoring BLM protesters: Federal appeals court
On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Washington, D.C., “selectively enforced” an ordinance against a group of pro-life activists while ignoring many similar offenses committed by Black Lives Matter protesters.A lawsuit filed by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of pro-life groups Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America was revived by a federal appeals court this …
Court rules DC discriminated against pro-life groups while favoring BLM
A federal appeals court ruled that the District of Columbia unevenly enforced its defacement ordinances against pro-life groups. According to the court, authorities treated the groups worse than Black Lives Matter activists. According to the complaint, two pro-life activists were arrested in August of 2020 for writing "Black Pre-Born Lives Matter" on a public sidewalk in chalk. The incident with the pro-life groups followed a summer when the str…
Court Revives Lawsuit Alleging DC Double Standard: BLM But Not Pro-Life Graffiti Allowed
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived part of a lawsuit claiming that the District of Columbia enforced an anti-graffiti law against pro-life protesters in Washington but not racial justice demonstrators in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a unanimous 3-0 decision, found that two anti-abortion groups had plausibly alleged that the D.C. government "discriminated on the basis of viewpoint in the selective enforcement of i…
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