Boston pays out $US2.1 to settle Christian flag legal case
Boston, US AP The city of Boston has agreed to pay more than $US2.1 million to the Christian legal organisation that backed a court challenge after the city refused to fly a Christian flag outside City Hall, a case that made it all the way to the US Supreme Court. The settlement announced Tuesday by […]
Christian flag in speech battle flies, briefly, over US city of Boston
Boston, USAP The Christian flag that became the focus of a free speech legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court was raised — briefly — outside Boston City Hall on Wednesday to cheers and songs of praise. The flag-raising took place about three months after the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision […]
US Supreme Court rules against Boston in Christian flag case
Washington DC, USAP A unanimous US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the city discriminated against the activist, Harold Shurtleff, because of […]