The Nation - News from Dec. 16, 1986
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A Rochester, N.Y., court dismissed charges against seven women who peeled off their shirts in a public park to protest a 50-year-old state law against nudity. Judge Herman Walz ruled that the “exposure of person” law was unconstitutionally applied to the so-called Topfree Seven because it interfered with their right to freedom of expression. The women bared their chests June 21 on a remote lawn in Cobbs Hill Park. Monroe County Dist. Atty. Howard Relin said he would appeal.
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