When major events like Super Bowl or the NCAA Final Four come to town, the tourist-heavy sections of New Orleans get a new set of rules and restrictions. Handing out free samples is banned, as is ...

(AP) The city of New Orleans must scale back its plans for a clean zone where the use of banners, signs and flags would be restricted during Super Bowl week, a federal judge said Thursday. U.S.

For years, major sporting and cultural events have bullied host cities into suppressing free speech and other fundamental rights via so-called “clean zone” ordinances. Such measures typically ...