Practice question
A city adopts a stipulated content-neutral safety rule. Its physical hazard objective is important and unrelated to suppressing expression, but the rule prohibits all signs throughout the city permanently even though the record establishes that only a narrow unsafe mounting practice causes the hazard and that the excess prohibition is unnecessary. Officials invoke neutrality as conclusive. Which is best?
- A neutral label permits unlimited burdens
- Important purpose removes any scope inquiry
- The excessive incidental restriction remains subject to the no-greater-than-essential condition and is not saved solely by neutrality
- Every safety rule is content-based by definition
- The city may replace all constitutional standards with its slogan
Legal references
- Diocese of Bacolod v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 205728, January 21, 2015, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/jan2015/gr_205728_2015.html
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