Template:Did you know nominations/Arlington County Board v. Richards

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:56, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Arlington County Board v. Richards

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Arlington County, VA, parking permit

... that in Arlington County Board v. Richards, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of one of the first residential zoned parking program in the United States (permit pictured)? Source: "Commuters who worked in this complex and had regularly parked in the area sued in the Circuit Court of Arlington County to enjoin the enforcement of the ordinance on state and federal constitutional grounds. The Virginia Supreme Court ultimately held that the ordinance violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.", Arlington County Board v. Richards, 434 US 5, 6 (1977)
- ALT1: ... that in Arlington County Board v. Richards, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Virginia Supreme Court without granting certiorari? Source: "Accordingly, the judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion ... MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL would grant the petition for certiorari and set the case for oral argument." at end of source cited above.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1917 Baku City Duma election

Moved to mainspace by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 04:31, 3 April 2022 (UTC).

@Daniel Case: New and long enough, within policy, Earwig finds just quotations and no copyvios, QPQ done. ALT1 isn't very interesting; ALT0 tweaked. One subtle issue: the lead cites a source that the Arlington permit district was the first in the country, but the article describes an earlier permit system in New Boston, Ohio. This needs to be resolved.

I don't believe the Arlington seal itself is public domain; it's a fair use upload on English Wikipedia, but the design is simple enough that it might be in a grey area. Given that it was first published in 1978, presumably without a copyright notice, it would be public domain if it were never registered, which I think is likely but some effort should be made to verify that. Otherwise, it could remain on the article as a fair use upload, but wouldn't be eligible for the Main Page. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 03:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@Antony-22: I have tweaked the intro so it accounts for the Ohio program at issue in State v. Whisham.

I agree ALT0 is better, although most lawyers (like my father) would do double takes at ALT1. But whatever ...

As far the seal goes, note that the county seal on the permit is a) one of several aspects of the image and thus likely to come under the de minimis exemption, especially as all the other elements are copyright-ineligible, and b) the pre-2007 version of the seal, which is hosted on Commons as a free image. Daniel Case (talk) 04:42, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@Daniel Case: Works for me! Thanks for writing up the article. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 05:11, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Tweaked ALT0 to T:DYK/P2 without image