Legal Center Wins Injunction in Free Speech Case

The legal center won a victory in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, in a suit it brought in June 2011 against the Central Arkansas Transit Authority 0n behalf of the United Coalition of Reason.  The court ruled that the transit authority had discriminated against the atheist message of UCoR’s advertisement by insisting upon a damage deposit not required of other advertisers in violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.  The court issued an injunction requiring CATA to run UCoR’s ad on the same terms available to other groups.