Newspapers Challenge Ban on Alcohol Ads

Two student newspapers at Virginia universities filed a federal lawsuit this month asserting that a state regulation banning alcohol-related ads in college publications violates their constitutional right to freedom of the press.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, representing Virginia Tech's Collegiate Times and the University of Virginia's Cavalier Daily, sued the state's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in federal district court in Richmond.

The state's

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