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State of Mo Kills 5+ Newspaper n March
State Govt Seizes Thousands of Missouri Newspapers, Machines and Company Money w/out Notice.
Readers
May Wonder Why after 18 years of doing so they Can No Longer buy
newspapers at Rest stops along the Freeway, So Thought They should Know
Mo Dot Has Seized Thousands of Newspapers and hundreds of machines with no notice.
We are one of many newspaper distributors of 22 newspapers such as USA today at Missouri rest areas. There are no pornographic newspapers distributed at rest areas.
We distributed 5 and did the litigation that opened up rest areas to first amendment protected newspaper distribution.
We assembled an 8 page non commercial
website of legal positions and court rulings etc including one upheld by the St Louis U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Cir.) which upheld a federal District Court ruling that state regulations limiting vending machines at rest stops violate a newspaper publisher's First Amendment rights.
http://missouri.violatesrights.com/
We had filed twice before seizure, that we had a constitutionally protected right to distribute there, that in addition to several court rulings, they had opened it up to many first amendment activities including registering voters, handing out political literature.. for 18 years thereby making it a dedicated public forum.
They never acknowledged that and despite four inquiries and two responses do not directly admit to four direct inquiries that they have seized our newspapers.
Also that we were entitled to be notified and granted a hearing under the due process provisions of the constitution
Rest areas are paid for by the Federal government and managed and maintained by the state government. Thus they are paid for and owned by the public and all constitutional rights apply there as any where else in Missouri.
Read up on the subject of the importance of newspaper to free society s. The people of Missouri have a right to receive literature, and have obtained 22 newspapers for 18 years and have a right to continue to do so.
U.S. Supreme Court in Martin Vs Struthers......
The Court held that the First Amendment protects both "the right to distribute literature" and "the right to receive it" and stated that the distribution of literature is protected "even if it creates the minor nuisance for a community of cleaning liter from its streets." Justice Hugo Black, writing the opinion of the court,.....-Wikipedia
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