SEATTLE – An anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington state showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming the FBI offers a $25 million reward for their one of their captures, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by the American Freedom Defense Initiative that King County violated its First Amendment right to free speech by refusing to post the advertisements on buses.
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The group – whose leader, Pamela Geller, organized the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas that exploded in violence in May – has similar bus ads in other cities and has gone to court with mixed results after some transportation officials rejected them.
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