Douglas upheld the constitutional validity of Canada's
public nudity laws stating, «requiring people to wear some modicum of clothing when in public is a reasonable limit.»
Douglas upheld the constitutional validity of Canada's
public nudity laws stating,...
Laws § 41.181, § 67.1 aa and § 117.4 i et seq. (1994) state that
public nudity laws do not apply to a woman breastfeeding a child.
Indeed, not all that long ago liberal Justices of the Supreme Court were accusing the State of Indiana of shredding the First Amendment by enforcing
public nudity laws against table top dancers at the Kitty Kat Lounge in downtown South Bend.
Not exact matches
And while the current
laws regarding
public nudity were probably in part inspired by your fairy tale, and are too strict to my liking, there are bigger fish to fry.
In 2012, San Francisco «barely» outlawed
public nudity — to much complaining; but the
law allows people to participate in parades and some other permit - issued special events in the buff.
The lifeguard went further to state that she was violating
laws by doing so and she could even be charged with
public nudity if she continued!
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 49 U.S. states that allow mothers to breastfeed in
public, out of which two states, Virginia and South Dakota, exempt breastfeeding moms from
public indecency or
nudity laws, leaving Idaho as the only state that hasn't passed any comparable
laws.
In some European nations, there are more equal gender
laws concerning
public nudity but those nations have LESS sexual assault and violence against women than in the United States - so there is no legal rationale for this double - standard - it's simply an unconstitutional tradition that has never been challenged in court by ACLU attorneys.
Banning all possible modifications of the burka would therefore undermine our
laws that ban
public nudity.
Even after the Ministerio Publico Federal (the Federal Prosecutor Bureau) declared that no crime had been committed in any of the above - mentioned cases and issued a technical note clarifying that
nudity and representations of sexuality are permitted in cultural and artistic exhibitions, the consequences continue to unfold: the state of Espirito Santo has passed a
law prohibiting the exhibition of photographs, texts, drawings, paintings, films and videos containing nude scenes or references to sexual acts in
public spaces; city councilors of the state of Rio Grande do Sul are currently trying to ban books in
public libraries that, they argue, expose children to «permissive ideologies, [detrimental] to the formation of character.»
His lawyers say the
law on
public nudity is too broad and call the restrictions a violation of freedom of expression.