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Court rules First Amendment allows cities to force property owners to patronize and publicly display artworks

February 05, 2018 | By TONY FRANCOIS

At the same time that the City of Mount Dora in Florida is trying to fine property owners for the artistic decoration of their home, the City of Oakland in California is forcing property owners to patronize and publicly display artworks. Both of these coastal incursions on the First Amendment are wrong, but today the federal court in San Francisco ...

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PLF sues to stop unconstitutional public art fee on new homes

July 23, 2015 | By TONY FRANCOIS

Today's money-no-object urban planning elite have a long list of things they think no modern city should be without, but many have no money to buy the stuff on their list. And, city residents tend not to support tax increases to pay for many of these priorities, even if they support someone else paying for it. So city bureaucrats turn to other sou ...