A federal court has ruled that a Pennsylvania community's resolution prohibiting the display of an American flag with a thin blue line on all township property is unconstitutional. The ruling about ...
From Tuesday's decision in Fraternal Order of Police v. Township of Springfield, decided by Judge Paul Matey, joined by Judge Anthony Scirica, concluding that the policy was unconstitutional: The ...
An eastern Pennsylvania township wanted to keep its policy banning its township police from displaying the “thin blue line” flag” so badly that it appealed a federal judge’s ruling to an appeals court ...
Prohibiting the use of the thin blue line flag restricts the free speech of public employees under the First Amendment, U.S. District Judge Karen Marston decided. File photo: In this Aug. 30, 2020 ...