“It’s wrong for the government to let the NFL and other private groups censor business owners like me, or any residents of the downtown area,” a Bramley Paulin shared.
PHOENIX — A Phoenix ordinance that let the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee accept or reject signs around the “NFL Experience” zone downtown is an unconstitutional infringement of free speech rights, a Maricopa Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
“It’s wrong for the government to let the NFL and other private groups censor business owners like me, or any residents of the downtown area,” Paulin’s statement said. With those events expected to attract hundreds of thousands of people, Paulin said he hoped to sell advertising space on his building to brands like Coca-Cola’s Powerade. But court documents said Coca-Cola turned down his offer, noting that his property was in a city-designated “clean zone” where any signage needed to be approved by the NFL or the host committee.
In his ruling Thursday, Astrowsky agreed with Paulin and the Goldwater Institute that the clean zone ordinance was a prior restraint on free speech. He also said that giving the authority to restrict speech over to “an unaccountable third party was totally antithetical” to the limited government called for in the Arizona Constitution.
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