June 16, 2000
Appeals Court Upholds Pennsylvania Law Barring Alcohol Ads in Campus Newspapers
A federal appeals court has rejected a college newspaper's challenge to a Pennsylvania law that prohibits businesses from running alcohol advertisements in campus publications.
The Pitt News, at the University of Pittsburgh, had sued the state's attorney general and other officials, arguing that the statute, Act 199, violated the student newspaper's constitutional rights to free speech because the law effectively cut off a revenue source and, in turn,
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