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Supreme Court Rejects Drug-Free Neighborhood Law


— June 9, 2003

“The Supreme Court let stand Monday a ruling that struck down a Cincinnati law that sought to create a “drug-exclusion zone” by banning anyone arrested or convicted of certain drug offenses from a high-crime neighborhood. Without comment, the high court rejected an appeal by the city defending the 1996 ordinance,” Reuters reports here.


“The Supreme Court let stand Monday a ruling that struck down a Cincinnati law that sought to create a “drug-exclusion zone” by banning anyone arrested or convicted of certain drug offenses from a high-crime neighborhood. Without comment, the high court rejected an appeal by the city defending the 1996 ordinance,” Reuters reports here.

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