Reader Response
January, 2003
Free Speech, of Not?In "You Be the Judge II" (The Playboy Forum, October), Chip Rowe describes artist Ronald White's struggle against persecution in South Carolina, where authorities arrested and convicted him of illegal tattooing. I co-authored an amicus brief about White's U.S. Supreme Court case on behalf of the National Tattoo Association and the Alliance of Professional Tattooists. As stated in your article, the South Carolina Supreme Court claimed that the process of tattooing is...
