Question

Centre City enacts an ordinance that bans the distribution of all printed materials on city streets. Diners Café opposes the city’s latest "revenue-enhancing" measure—a tax on prepared food sales—and wants to protest by distributing handbills. In Diners’ suit against the city, a court would likely hold the ban on printed materials to be

Answer 1

Answer: unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

Explanation:

From the information provided, in Diners’ suit against the city, the court would likely hold the ban on printed materials to be unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

Under the First Amendment, any law that limits or ban freedom of expression, religion, peaceful assembly, petitioning of the government is prohibited. Therefore, the action of the city is unconstitutional.