The Supreme Court’s decision not to consider topless bans leaves a ruling in place that technically allows Kansas women to go topless. But a local political science professor said the legality of it is complicated.
On Monday the United States Supreme Court decided not to review a challenge to a New Hampshire ordinance banning women to be topless.
In 2016 three women were arrested for doing yoga topless on a New Hampshire beach. When they appealed their convictions the New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected the challenge, meaning tops on for women.
In 2019 the same issue went to court in Colorado, but a federal appeals court shot down the topless ban. Kansas is part of that appeal court’s jurisdiction.
(Read more: KSNT News)