Calif. Court Says Mobile Billboard Law Doesn't Muzzle Animal Rights Group's Speech An animal rights group had every right to protest singer/actress Hilary Duff's performances at rodeos and bullfight arenas, but not on moving billboards in West Hollywood, Calif. In a 2-1 decision Tuesday, California's 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles upheld the small city's ban on mobile billboard advertising after finding it doesn't violate the animal group's free-speech rights. "The ordinance is content neutral," Justice Frances Rothschild wrote. "It draws no distinctions based on the content of the speech or the viewpoints expressed. Nor is there any evidence that 'the ordinance was designed to suppress certain ideas that the city finds distasteful or that it has been applied to [plaintiffs] because of the views that they express.'" Steve Hindi, president of Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, an Illinois-based nonprofit that seeks to expose cruelty to animals, was pulled over in West Hollywood one night and fined more than $1,000 for violating the city's ban on mobile billboards. Hindi was driving the so-called "Tiger Truck," a vehicle that has four 100-inch video screens on all sides, showing animal abuse and blaring the sounds of creatures in distress....