Supreme Court won't hear students' challenge to Va. ban on alcohol ads

Supreme Court won't hear students' challenge to Va. ban on alcohol ads
Case returns to district court for trial

VIRGINIA -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging Virginia’s ban on alcohol-related advertising in college newspapers.

The case now returns to the district court, which originally found the ban unconstitutional on its face. Two student papers, the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily and Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times, filed a lawsuit challenging the ban in June 2006.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the ban in April, finding it did not violate the First Amendment on its face.

“The response from the Supreme Court is unfortunate,” said Peter Velz, editor in chief of The Collegiate Times.

http://www.splc.org/news/newsflash.asp?id=2177

Clearly, the pretend "right to keep and bear arms" could use some trimming back to save college students as well. Despite the 2nd Amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre

"The case now returns to the district court, which originally found the ban unconstitutional on its face.

Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, said the case now goes to trial in the district court on two unresolved issues: Whether the ban is unconstitutional in the way it is enforced on the two papers, and whether the ban violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause because it targets only college newspapers. The first could invalidate the ban only for the two plaintiffs. The other could strike down the ban entirely. "