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Article: COURT HEARS WEEDSTOCK CASE SAUK COUNTY'S HANDLING OF EVENT CHALLENGED.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2003
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Byline: Jenny Price Associated Press
A Sauk County ordinance governing permits for large gatherings was used to censor a pro-marijuana rally shut down by police in May 2000, an attorney for the event's organizer told a state appeals court Thursday.
Jeff Scott Olson, an attorney for Weedstock organizer Ben Masel, told the 4th District Court of Appeals that the county's ordinance allows officials to reject a permit application for subjective reasons.
Olson said county officials could use the ordinance to engage in "secret censorship."
Weedstock organizers refused to obtain permission from Sauk County for the festival in the town of Fairfield. Masel argued the ...