Three Years Later…Judge Rules in Favor of League of Young Voters, ACLU

This is a follow up to a story that has been unfolding since 2006.  In 2006 the PA League of Young Voters wanted to run ads on Port Authority buses informing ex convicts that they have the right to vote.  The Port Authority would not run the ads.  The PA league of Young Voters and ACLU sued the Port Authority on this issue. On Friday, Judge McVerry ruled against the Port-Authority.

From the Post-Gazette (Port Authority loses lawsuit over nonprofit bus ads, Friday, July 31, 2009)

U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry ruled that the authority engaged in “viewpoint discrimination” in refusing to sell ad space on buses to the Pittsburgh League of Young Voters Education Fund.

Also see the PG article from 2008 – Port Authority ad policy called discriminatory, May 7, 2008