Kathy will never play the world-famous Route 66 casino again.
Lewis Country Store is no stranger to controversy, but one of its latest scrolling digital signs outside the gas station at 5106 Old Hickory Boulevard has some passersby wondering whether it’s an issue of free speech or illegality.
Early Friday morning, one such motorist, who wishes to remain anonymous, took photographs of the sign which read “$50,000 reward for Kathy Griffin’s head delivered.”
“I know this seems like a bad joke, but is this legal?” he wrote in an email to The Tennessean. “I’m not sure if this is covered by free speech.”[…]
Tara Ladd, an attorney with the Metropolitan Government of Nashville Department of Law, said that the digital sign is on private property and does not encroach the public right-of-way.
“There does not appear to be an obvious violation of the Metropolitan Code of Laws,” she wrote in an email Friday. “Generally, the First Amendment protects even speech that may be construed as offensive.”