Dan Horton wrote:
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My guess is that you are unlikely to prevail in municipal court when
faced with a custom-written ordinance, so you're probably thinking
about a grand fight that includes an appeal to a higher court. If you
lose there, similar ordinances become attractive to other
municipalities.....and we have pain nationwide.

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The flip side is if he wins, we all benefit as the precedent would
tend to disabuse others of the practice.

The bottom line is he has the right to, as you say, chart his own
destiny, and you have a right to avise him about what you
think of the course he is on.

I hate to use the analogy, but a lot of African Americans were
against the civil rights movement, fearing that it was just gong to
stirr up trouble and the backlash would make things worse for
them.

The people in that movement had an absolute right to do demand
equality under the law and those other folks had an absolute right
to ask them to not do so.

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FF