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Reviving a woman's claims against Hunt County for its sheriff's policy of deleting negative comments from its official Facebook page and banning users, the <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Constitution.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Fifth Circuit ruled (opens in a new tab)">Fifth Circuit ruled</a></strong> that the plaintiff sufficiently pleaded that the county "had an explicit policy of viewpoint discrimination."

NEW ORLEANS — Reviving a woman’s claims against Hunt County for its sheriff’s policy of deleting negative comments from its official Facebook page and banning users, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the plaintiff sufficiently pleaded that the county “had an explicit policy of viewpoint discrimination.”

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