On the merits this appeal presents substantial questions concerning the constitutional validity of ordinances of the City of Los Angeles governing the solicitation of contributions for charity.
More lawsuits are challenging whether the ordinance is constitutional.
The constitutional defect in this ordinance, however, [p577] is far more basic.
But with many of the cases pending, the Office of the Palm Beach County Public Defender last week challenged the ordinance on constitutional grounds.
The district courts in Wrenn and Pink Pistols had split on whether the D.C. "special need" ordinance was constitutional.
In the court of original jurisdiction in Kentucky, and in the Court of Appeals of that State, the case was made to turn upon the constitutional validity of the ordinance.
The case was taken to the Supreme Court, which held that the ordinance was constitutional, saying it saw no evidence of racial motivation in the city council's decision.
The constitutional validity of the ordinance in its general scope is settled by the recent decision of this court in Euclid v. Ambler Co., 272 U. S. 365, 47 S. Ct. 114, 71 L. Ed. 303, and upon the record here we find no warrant for saying that the ordinance is unconstitutional constitutional as applied to the facts in the present case.
In 1974 and 1984, through a constitutional amendment and presidential ordinance respectively, members of my Islamic sect ― the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ― were declared heretics and denied their basic religious freedoms.
There is, of course, a very substantial differene between the two possible views of the court's construction of the ordinances, for constitutional as well as other purposes.
Mr. Igleheart said towns and cities can legally keep the billboards out of their communities by simply making sure zoning ordinances are constitutional before the billboard companies have a chance to submit their applications and mount a legal challenge based on local laws.
