Federal Court: Anti-Muslim Group Can't Post Ads on Buses

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE (AP) -- An anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington state showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming the FBI offers a $25 million reward for their one of their captures, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by the American Freedom Defense Initiative that King County violated its First Amendment right to free speech by refusing to post the advertisements on buses.

The group - whose leader, Pamela Geller, organized the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas that exploded in violence in May - has similar bus ads in other cities and has gone to court with mixed results after some transportation officials rejected them.

David Yerushalmi, the group's lawyer, said the group will appeal Wednesday's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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[KamaAina]

1. "wrongly claiming the FBI offers a $25 million reward for their one of their captures"?

Isn't that false advertising?

[brett_jv]

2. lol ... you say those words as though that's a 'real thing' ...

Gotta admit though it'd be pretty neat if there actually WERE regulations against 'false advertising', apart from those that can be 'enforced' via somebody suing the advertiser directly for slander or whatnot.

Come to think of it, I heard from my grandma that, at one time, there WAS such thing as 'rules against false advertising' ... seems like that must've been a Golden Era ...