# Walter v. City of Gulf Shores

> Supreme Court of Alabama · March 8, 2002 · 829 So. 2d 186

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7754466

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex parte David Marsh WALTER. (In re David Marsh Walter v. City of Gulf Shores.)
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** March 8, 2002
- **Citations:** 829 So. 2d 186; 2002 Ala. LEXIS 87; 2002 WL 363718
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Johnstone
- **Judges:** Brown, Harwood, Houston, Johnstone, Lyons, Moore, See, Stuart, Woodall
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

JOHNSTONE, Justice
(dissenting).
I join Justice Harwood in his scholarly dissent. I add that, in my opinion, the content of Walter’s ads was no harm to the public, much less any “real” harm and therefore was, and is, not an appropriate target for regulation within the test enun- *196 dated by Edenfield v. Fane, 507 U.S. 761 , 113 S.Ct. 1792, 123 . L.Ed.2d 543 (1993).

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