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MD: AG Says Anti-Solicitation Law ‘Unconstitutional’

After nearly a year of review, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler says Gaithersburg’s anti-solicitation ordinance would not survive a First Amendment challenge.

Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney A. Katz and the City Council passed the measure in February 2007 in the face of years of struggling with day laborers looking for work every morning along the city’s Route 355 corridor. The measure makes curbside hires a misdemeanor for both hirers and workers.

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