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Nov 19, 2021 · Outside the city hall are three flagpoles: one for flying the American flag, one for flying the Massachusetts state flag, and one for flying Boston’s municipal flag. The city has a program...
- Case Background
- Public Forum Doctrine
- Government Speech Doctrine
Boston has permitted groups to request that a flag temporarily fly alongside the American and Massachusetts flags at City Hall to mark special occasions, replacing the city flag that usually occupies the third post. Past examples include flag requests from the Chinese Progressive Association and the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. In 201...
Federal, state and local governments oversee a wide variety of public spaces: parks, universities and courthouses, just to name a few. The Supreme Court has organized government spaces into several categories, each of which permits different types of restrictions on free speech – rules referred to as the public forum doctrine. Spaces like public pa...
Shurtleff v. Boston is now the newest precedent in the line of cases that constitutes the court’s government speech doctrine. Over 30 years ago, in Rust v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court recognized that the government itself is a speaker with First Amendment rights. Government speech is not subject to the public forum doctrine. Instead, the government...
Nov 29, 2021 · Nov. 29, 2021. WASHINGTON — There are three flagpoles in front of Boston’s City Hall. One flies the American flag, and the second that of Massachusetts. What appears on the third is at issue...
May 2, 2022 · The court unanimously ruled that the city, which has approved many other requests to raise flags at its City Hall, violated a Christian group’s free speech rights.
May 2, 2022 · Just outside Boston's city hall, once named " the world's ugliest building," are three flagpoles. One flies the American Flag, the second flies the state flag, and the third usually flies the...
Jan 18, 2022 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments over whether the city of Boston engaged in unlawful discrimination and censorship when it denied the request of a local civic organization to fly the Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
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May 2, 2022 · The case involves three flagpoles standing outside of Boston’s city hall. The first flagpole displays the US flag, with a smaller flag honoring prisoners of war and missing service members...
