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Banning Liquor Ads In College Newspapers Doesn’t Work

Gene PolicinskiCommentary
Inside the First Amendment

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By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

There are moments when a courtroom win for free expression in America may not entirely seem like such a good thing to some Americans, for some distinctly non-First Amendment reasons.

I confess to a bit of dueling emotions myself about a recent victory for college newspapers in Virginia. A federal magistrate judge in Richmond tossed out a longtime state ban on…

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