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  • Police citation over sign leads to federal lawsuit ("...get the f--- out")

    07/31/2009 9:34:16 AM PDT · by Born Conservative · 34 replies · 1,812+ views
    Times Leader (Wilkes Barre, PA) ^ | 7/31/09 | Steve Mocarsky
    SCRANTON – A Hughestown man who was cited with disorderly conduct after displaying a sign in his pickup’s rear window using the f-word is suing the borough, the police officer who cited him and other borough officials. He’s seeking economic, non-economic, special and punitive damages to be determined at a jury trial, as well as costs, expenses, attorney fees and other relief the court deems just and equitable. According to the suit, Decker on Nov. 11 received a non-traffic citation for disorderly conduct issued by Patrolman Robert Leombruni because of a sign on Decker’s truck that read: “If your (sic)...
  • Attorneys say truck owner has right to display message (ACLU takes the case)

    12/04/2008 5:45:23 AM PST · by Born Conservative · 129 replies · 2,991+ views
    Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre PA) ^ | 12/4/08 | Edward Lewis
    Attorneys say truck owner has right to display message Sign by Hughestown man that contains expletive might be judged obscene, but lawyers contend it’s free speech. A Hughestown man has the right to express his opinion in any way he seems fit, including the use of a word many deem obscene, two attorneys said. Joseph Decker, 39, of Parsonage Street, was charged by Hughestown police with disorderly conduct over a sign he placed in the rear window of his Dodge Ram pickup truck. Decker said he placed the sign that says, “If you’re in America and can’t speak English, get...