1972 November 19

Free Speech Protects Right to Warn Drivers About Police Radar

 

A New Jersey court on this day ruled that the First Amendment protects the right to warn motorists about police radar on the road ahead.

The case involved Robert Taylor, of Ridgefield, New Jersey, who had been arrested for holding up a cardboard sign reading “Radar Ahead” on Shaler Avenue in Ridgefield.

Taylor’s mother said that the judge decided that “it’s not bad to tell other people to be good.”

Learn more about freedom of speech from the ACLU

Read about the “Ongoing Challenge to Define Free Speech” from the ABA

And about free speech from Human Rights Watch

Learn about the 100 Year fight for free speech in America: Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, The Free Speech Century (2018)

 

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