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SCRANTON – A federal judge has authorized a stay in litigation over the City of Pottsville’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, pitting a political activist who says he was wrongfully arrested for engaging in such activity against the City.
SCRANTON – An activist litigating with the City of Pottsville’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, is seeking a stay of the instant case, now that his criminal conviction for the suit’s subject incident has been overturned by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
SCRANTON – The City of Pottsville has motioned to dismiss an activist’s constitutional challenge of its open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, with the case being one of several the plaintiff has filed statewide.
SCRANTON – An activist who recently dismissed his constitutional challenge of the City of Williamsport’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest and brought a similar case against the City of Scranton, is now litigating with Pottsville over the same issues.