Alpharetta, Ga., defeated a lawsuit alleging it violated the speech rights of the Sons of Confederate Veterans when it told the group it couldn’t fly the Confederate battle flag during the city’s annual Old Soldiers Day Parade, with a ruling by the Eleventh Circuit.
The parade was government speech, and the First Amendment didn’t oblige the city “to permit the presence of a rebellious army’s battle flag in the pro-veterans parades that they fund and organize,” the opinion by Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. said Tuesday.
The parade has been a regular part of Alpharetta’s fabric since 1952. The ...
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