National Amusements, Inc. v. Town of Dedham

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the limitations created by an ordinance were not unconstitutional because the challenger's evidence \does not call into legitimate question the adequacy of the alternate route of communication\
• noting that legislatures may rely on evidence of past problems with a particular activity and need not conduct an investigation to corroborate each incident
• “Secondary effects can comprise a special characteristic of a particular speaker or group of speakers.”
• “[A] governmental interest woven exclusively out of the gossamer threads of speculation and surmise cannot be termed substantial.”
• “The concept of what constitutes a content-based as opposed to a content-neutral regulation has proven protean in practice.”
• “The bigoted comments of a few citizens, even those with power, should not invalidate action which in fact has a legitimate basis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).