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Library’s Footwear Rule Upheld in Appeals CourtAn Ohio man has lost his latest bid to go barefoot in the Columbus Metropolitan Library. After losing a 2002 lawsuit against the library for requiring him to wear shoes, Robert A. Neinast took the library to court again to challenge wording in its Customer Code of Conduct, adopted in August 2004, that prohibits “improper dress, including bare feet.”The county common pleas court denied Neinast’s motion for summary judgment, so he appealed his case. But the Ohio appellate court upheld the library’s policy January 26, ruling that the “prohibition against bare feet in the library is related to governmental interests of protecting barefoot library patrons from documented hazards within the library and preserving the economic well-being of the library.” Neinast, a member of the Society for Barefoot Living who has been “going barefoot nearly continuously since mid-1997,” according to a 2001 court affidavit, is a retired software engineer. Posted February 3, 2006. |
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