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  • Fortuneteller suing to overturn Montgomery (County, MD) ban on forecasting

    07/22/2008 10:46:53 AM PDT · by 3AngelaD · 20 replies · 334+ views
    The DC Examinerf ^ | 2008-07-22 | Kathleen Miller
    A fortuneteller is suing Montgomery County after he learned he would not be allowed to open a shop in Bethesda because the county bans the business of forecasting the future. Attorneys for Nick Nefedro, previously of Key West, Fla., say county officials violated his First Amendment rights to free speech and discriminated against his “Roma,” or Gypsy, culture when they refused to give him a business license. Montgomery code dating back to the early 1950s prohibits collecting cash for predicting the future. “The underlying purpose is to prevent people from being taken advantage of, because it’s a scam,” Clifford Royalty,...