Legal Opinion
Jones v. City of Key West, Fla.
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided February 25, 1988No. 85-499-CIV-MARCUSPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FINAL ORDER, FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
MARCUS, District Judge.
Those who won our independence believed ... that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensible to the discovery and spread of political truth; ... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of American government.... Believing in the power of reason as applied through public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by law — the argument of force in its worst form. 1
THIS ACTION was brought by Plaintiff, Douglas M. Jones, a resident of Key…
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