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https://kdvr.com/2019/09/05/fort-collins-agrees-to-remove-topless-ban-from-public-code/
Colorado city officials have removed a topless ban from city law that inspired a Free the Nipple lawsuit.
The Coloradoan reported that Fort Collins City Council agreed Tuesday to remove language in the public nudity code that barred women and girls over age 10 from exposing their breasts in public.
City officials say the ban is expected to be removed Sept. 17.
Officials say a district court judge and a federal appeals court have ruled against the policy in the past two years.
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(Score: 2) by lars on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:58PM (3 children)
Back in around 1997 or so a woman here in Ontario won a case that allowed women to go bare chested. Other than at a gay prie parade, I have only seen boobs onceon a street, someone changing clothes as they walked. I feel they would have anyway.
So, sorry texans, there wont be boobs everywhere suddenly just because the law has changed it does not mean that social norms have too.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:26PM
Of course given that, you could just as well ask: why did someone feel a need to make a law forbidding it?
Maybe that question might help the other poster ranting about how the people suing against it "must be reveling in their unprecedented power these days" to get some perspective.
While there certainly are people taking it too far, getting a nonsense and discriminatory law revoked is really not that. EVEN if it makes little difference in practice.
(Score: 4, Informative) by hendrikboom on Saturday September 21 2019, @08:19PM (1 child)
That Ontario case was about a demonstration pushing for the law to be changed to allow women to bare their breasts in public. And the woman involved had bared her breasts as part of the demonstration.
She was arrested and charged and convicted. But on appeal, the appeal court rules that in this case the bare breasts were part of protected free speech. It was, after all, done as part of a demonstration.
So normal baring of breasts was still unlawful. It became lawful only as part of protected free speech.
(Score: 2) by Codesmith on Monday September 23 2019, @02:48AM
I believe you are incorrect. The original conviction was overturned by the Appeal Court, and the Government of Ontario did not take the case further to the Supreme Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topfreedom_in_Canada#Ontario [wikipedia.org] covers the details.
Private property can be require clothing, as can Provincial Parks.
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