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Otto v. City of Boca Raton

981 F.3d 854 (11th Cir. 2020)
JurisdictionUnited States
CourtUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Year2020
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Municipal ordinances barring licensed therapists from providing speech-based sexual-orientation-change-efforts ('conversion therapy') to minors are content-based and viewpoint-based restrictions on speech that must satisfy strict scrutiny, which these ordinances cannot, so their enforcement was preliminarily enjoined.

Area of Law

General

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