Traffic Regulations Cannot Unduly Curtail the Free Speech Right to Circulate Publications

Analyzes the overbreadth of a 1976 Houston ordinance that banned selling newspapers on the street to any occupant in a vehicle. The Texas Court of Civil Appeals held that the ordinance was overbroad on its face and abridged the right of free speech by curtailing circulation of published material. The author looks at the free speech harm the ordinance posed and decides whether the court of civil appeals was correct in their ruling regarding the ordinance.