It is reported that the city of Gainesville, Florida is planning to bill Terry Jones for the costs of providing security for his church and the surrounding neighborhoods in light of his announced plan to burn a Quran. See http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/17/florida.quran.pastor/index.html?hpt=T2.
I have not followed the cases dealing with imposition of security costs on controversial speakers. It seems Jones typically has spoken on his church's property, and has not held the kind of rally or parade with respect to which it might be more reasonable to bill the speaker for security costs (and trash pickup, etc.). But, as I said, I haven't followed the relevant cases. Perhaps someone on the list would have some insight here. Of course, one way to shut up controversial speakers would be to make their speech very expensive in this way. Mark Scarberry Pepperdine _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
