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HearldTribune - Friday, February 14, 2003
Federal court stops Florida from blocking nude anti-war activists
The Associated Press
A federal court judge Thursday barred the State of Florida from trying to block plans by a group of women to gather in a state park, strip nude and form a peace symbol with their bodies in protest of a U.S. war on Iraq.
In his 11-page order, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks wrote that "nude overtly political speech in the form of a 'living nude peace symbol' is expressive conduct well within the ambit of the First Amendment."
Middlebrooks also ruled, however, that the state could erect signs to notify the public that the protest would be taking place, or it could put screens around the demonstrators.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida went to court in defense of a naturist and a videographer who planned to record the nude demonstration.
The demonstration is scheduled for Friday morning at John D. MacArthur Beach State Park on Singer Island, north of West Palm Beach.
Similar demonstrations have taken place in recent weeks in New York and California.
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PalmBeachPost - Friday, Feb 14 2003
WEST PALM BEACH -- Organizers of the "Living Nude Peace Sign" war protest won an injunction in U.S. District Court Thursday to allow them to hold a naked peace rally at MacArthur Beach State Park at 11 a.m. today. The law enforcement arm of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation notified organizer T.A. Wyner that they would arrest anyone who took off their clothes, although Wyner won a lawsuit years ago allowing her group to perform a play in the nude at a state park. The protest is being held in conjunction with the naturists' annual winter festival.
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