Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!telecom-request From: Dan_Jacobson@att.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Advertising Consumer Rights Act Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 18:17:37 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 444, Message 7 of 10 "Linc" == Linc Madison writes: > It turns out that if you have a "NO SOLICITING" sign on the > front of your house, it is entirely legal for someone to come to > your door anyway and solicit you for POLITICAL purposes, because > the First Amendment right of the solicitor [...] Same apparently applies to [major brand name religious group] as they left me at a loss for words when they countered my routine of pointing at my official City of Naperville, IL "No Solicitors Invited" sticker with "We're not soliciting anything". Seems like I need some kind of super sticker. [Moderator's Note: In a couple cases where there have been challenges to the 'no solicitors' sign by religious or political groups the courts have held the sign referred to *commercial* solicitation and *commercial* speech ... not political or religious speech. However, a 'no trespassing' or 'do not disturb' sign was held to mean exactly what it said even where politics and religion was conerned. PAT]