(AP) – A federal court has ruled that a Pennsylvania community’s resolution prohibiting the display of an American flag with a thin blue line on all township property is unconstitutional.

Township of Springfield, decided by Judge Paul Matey, joined by Judge Anthony Scirica, concluding that the policy was unconstitutional: The "Thin Blue Line American Flag" ("the Flag") is "a black ...

A federal court has ruled that a prohibition by a Pennsylvania community on the display of the American flag with a thin blue line that is supportive of law enforcement is unconstitutional.

But as a political totem it is undeniably powerful. A merger of the American flag with a symbol representing the police, the thin blue line flag has become a potent statement in its own right.

‘The Thin Blue Line flag features a black and white image of the American flag with the horizontal stripe beneath the field of white stars on the black background. The stars represent the ...

and taking a regular American flag and changing three of the stripes would violate the letter of that code. It is more common to see thin blue line flags that are black and white other than the ...

An eastern Pennsylvania township wanted to keep its policy banning its township police from displaying the “thin blue line” flag” so badly that it appealed a federal judge’s ruling to an ...

A federal court has ruled that a prohibition by a Pennsylvania community on the display of the American flag with a thin blue line that is supportive of law enforcement is unconstitutional.