83 Misc. 2d 64 - McCormick v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[h]owever reluctant courts have been in the past to allow aesthetic considerations alone to justify the use of police power ... the courts now recognize aesthetics as a legitimate concept within the general police powers”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 178 Conn. App. 615 - Lawrence v. Dept. of Energy & Environmental Protection