A Christian church in Gilbert, Arizona is free to display signs announcing the times of its services, the Supreme Court ruled in finding that the town restrictions on the signs were content based and unconstitutional. (Courthouse News Service, June 18, 2015, by Barbara Leonard)
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals had ruled that the Gilbert ban was not born of animosity toward content and therefore constitutional. But in overturning the Ninth Circuit, the Supreme Court said in a unanimous decision, “A law that is content based on its face is subject to strict scrutiny regardless of the government’s benign motive, content-neutral justification, or lack of ‘animus toward the ideas contained’ in the regulated speech.” (The Volokh Conspiracy in The Washington Post, June 18, 2015, by Eugene Volokh)