Legal Fight Continues Over Anti-Israel Bus Ads In Ann Arbor, Michigan
January 11th, 2013, 9:47 PM
Ann Arbor's transit agency has a less-fuzzy advertising acceptability policy, but still won't post anti-Israel ads on buses, the Associated Press reports.
The more detailed guidelines were drafted after a federal judge said the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority's prohibitions against certain ads were vague and unconstitutional. That ruling last fall came in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
An AP dispatch in The Detroit News fills in the background
The ad [submitted] by Blaine Coleman would have skulls and bones and say "Boycott 'Israel.' Boycott Apartheid."
The bus agency says putting Israel in quotation marks implies that it doesn't exist. The agency says the ad also ridicules a group of people.
Judge Mark Goldsmith of Federal Court in Detroit asked each side for new legal briefs addressing why Coleman, a 55-year-old Ann Arbor attorney, should or shouldn't be allowed to buy space for his rolling message.
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