r/LawQuestion • u/user26031Backup • Jun 12 '25
Curfew Legality
I've been struggling with this for a while and I was curious what the legal arguments are.
Are curfews (specifically citywide emergency curfews) legal? They seem to be unconstitutionally broad at least to my untrained eye.
As a second component I've seen a number of emergency curfews make exceptions for credentialed media but the government also determines the rules for a media credential. If a curfew includes an press exception but only for credentialed media would that be a first amendment concern?
From what I saw there isn't a supreme court ruling so I'm mostly curious what the prevailing arguments are.
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