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Massachusetts Upholds the Right to Be Rude at Public Meetings

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The state’s Supreme Judicial Court struck down a town’s unconstitutional “civility code.”

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

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A man walks up to the John Adams Courthouse, which houses the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, Massachusetts, March 6, 2018.
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Dan Ladden-Hall

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