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#California judge rejects tattoo artists’ bid to beat COVID-19 closures on ‘free speech’ grounds

#California judge rejects tattoo artists’ bid to beat COVID-19 closures on ‘free speech’ grounds

Tattoos may indeed be “free speech,” but the public’s safety is more important, a judge has ruled in a strange COVID-19 closures case.

A California judge this week rejected a lawsuit by a group of Southern California tattoo shops, which had hoped to stay open despite pandemic restrictions by arguing their work is protected under the First Amendment, according to the Los Angeles Times.

U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer nixed their claim, ruling instead that public safety trumps the shops’ First Amendment argument — leaving the shop owners wondering how to stay afloat as COVID-19 cases in the state spike.

The shops can continue to plan and design tattoos, Fischer ruled. They just can’t actually tattoo customers.

Plaintiff Glenn West, whose owns Palace Art Tattoo in Thousand Oaks, told the L.A. Times he’d recently taken a trip to a crowded Target, and believes his own business was “much safer.”

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