Marshfield Family Skateland, Inc. v. Town of Marshfield

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting First Amendment challenge to town’s total prohibition on coin-activated amusement devices; court considered evidence of “Ms. Pac-Man,” “Tron,” “Donkey Kong,” “Zaxxon,” and “Kangaroo”
• governmental action which intrudes on interests deemed nonfundamental by court must simply be rationally related to a legitimate State objective to pass constitutional muster
• “ ‘if the means the State adopted are rationally related to the achievement of that purpose, the legislation will withstand constitutional challenge’ [footnotes omitted]. Shell Oil Co. v. Revere, 383 Mass. 682, 686 [1981]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).