Rhode Island’s public transit agency may have violated the First Amendment when it refused to allow an advertisement from a medical organization to be placed on buses and at bus shelters, a federal judge ruled.
Rhode Island Public Transit Authority may have “inconsistently enforced its” advertisement policy when it approved a 2020 ad from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine but rejected a similar ad in 2024, Chief Judge John McConnell, Jr. of the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island said Wednesday.
McConnell rejected the transit agency’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying Physicians Committee “plausibly alleged” ...
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