Legal Opinion
NEFEDRO v. Montgomery County
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 10, 2010No. 84, September Term, 2009PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*589GREENE, J.
The petitioner in this case, Nick Nefedro, wishes to open a fortunetelling business in Montgomery County. Montgomery County, however, has an ordinance (“the Fortunetelling Ordinance”) that prohibits the acceptance of remuneration for fortunetelling. Nefedro has asked us to determine whether the Fortunetelling Ordinance violates his right to freedom of speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 40 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. Montgomery County argues that the Ordinance does not implicate those constitutional provisions or, in the…
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