Important #HOA Free Speech Decision! Print it out, and SAVE! https://t.co/CcN3oMlEvw — Ward Lucas (@Ward_Lucas) January 7, 2016 The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting ... In the above tweet (' social current see ') from Ward Luca s, we learn about a landmark HOA case for free speech in Minnesota.  Here, a court overturned the illegal muzzle placed on an HOA member, Mel Pittel. The court quoted a landmark 1931 free press decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that few people even know about. A newspaper article is linked . Interpretations of "freedom of speech" rights within privatopia, as in the private governments of common interest developments (aka HOAs) has been and remains a dicey ...

#ALTACITIES next : HOA manager tells directors what to say and how to vote during board meetings - LATimes https://t.co/B6Ph2VaeBq — Mike Foxworth (@ALTALOMAN) January 3, 2016 Disabled Woman Sues #Aventura #Condo Over #ServiceDog Access #COA #HOA https://t.co/l2QrMKDSY6 pic.twitter.com/BprxHg3nNl — AriasBosinger (@AriasBosinger) January 7, 2016 This one is MUST-READ! It’s written by a Florida lawyer who talks about how corrupt lawyers in the #HOA system are. https://t.co/RptdL6t9lA — Ward Lucas (@Ward_Lucas) January 6, 2016 WARD LUCAS is a Colorado broadcast journalist who has developed a significant reputation reporting on matters HOA from the homeowner perspective. Lucas has spent 40 years in investigative journalism and has won more than 70 journalism and civic awards for his reporting and writing. He was the first reporter on the DB Cooper hijacking and the Ted Bundy murders. He has interviewed US Presidents and nursing home residents, Secretaries of Sta...