Virginia won’t join brief over funeral protest

By The Associated Press
Published: June 3, 2010

Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Constitutional, U.S. Supreme Court

Virginia was one of just two states that refused to join a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday supporting the father of a Marine whose funeral drew anti-gay protesters carrying inflammatory signs. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's spokesman said concerns about freedom of expression prompted the decision to stay out of Albert Snyder's legal battle against the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist ...

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