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LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appellate panel ruled Wednesday that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department violated the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s (CBR) free speech rights. Two CBR associates had been forced by the Sherriff’s Department to move a mobile billboard display of enlarged photos of early-term aborted fetuses away from a Rancho Palos Verdes middle school campus.

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), a non-profit pro-life educational foundation, sued the LA County Sheriff’s Department and an assistant principal at Dodson Middle School, claiming civil rights and First Amendment violations. The mobile billboard truck was part of the group’s Reproductive Choice Campaign, which seeks to “expose as many people as possible to the realities of abortion.”

Gregg Cunningham, Executive Director of CBR said: “In this case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals almost totally reversed the trial judge on almost every issue. This is a huge win for the First Amendment. This is an even larger win for middle school and high school students who are being lied to about abortion and who will now learn the truth as our billboard trucks drive past their schools displaying large aborted baby photos.