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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court declined June 23 to review a ruling that the Church cannot limit offensive speech in a plaza it purchased from Salt Lake City, according to the Associated Press.
The court's decision lets stand an October ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said because the Church had guaranteed the city pedestrian access through the park — located on what was Main Street between the Church Office Building and the Salt Lake Temple — at the time of the purchase, free-speech rights along the sidewalks through the plaza must be retained.
However, the Church and the city may have found a way around the ruling. In exchange for land on Salt Lake's west side, the city is surrendering its pedestrian easement through the plaza — a move the 10th Circuit suggested would give the Church authority to restrict speech.
