Lawyer challenges ban on for-sale signs on cars parked on the street
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A lawyer in Alexandria, Virginia, who wants to sell his 2007 Dodge Ram truck has filed a lawsuit challenging the town’s ban on for-sale signs on vehicles parked on city streets.
Lawyer Scott McLean filed the suit last week with the help of the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Washington Post reports. The suit claims the law places a content-based ban on speech that violates the First Amendment.
McLean received a ticket two years ago when he tried to sell a different car parked on the street with for-sale signs.
“I can put a bumper sticker on my vehicle about my religious views and moral views,” McLean told the Post. “Those pocketbook issues are just as important. For me, free speech doesn’t have any qualifiers.”
Similar laws are on the books throughout the country.
Alexandria City Attorney James Banks told the Post he plans to review the ban on car for-sale signs and will report his recommendation on whether to repeal the law to the city council. The city has suspended enforcement of the law pending the review.
The city is reviewing many of its old laws. It has already repealed a ban on shoeshine stands and a ban on “lewd and lascivious cohabitation” by unmarried people.
