Yoga classes resume at San Diego beach as court says they are ‘protected speech’

<p>Instructors Steven Hubbard and Amy Baack had sued after a city ordinance restricted such activities on the beach</p><p>Yoga classes are back on at San Diego beaches this week after a federal appeals court ruled that a city ordinance restricting such activities was unconstitutional and that teaching yoga was “protected speech”.</p><p>The three-judge panel of the US ninth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday overruled a San Diego judge and decided in favor of two instructors who had sued over a law that San Diego passed in 2024 banning yoga classes of four or more people at shoreline parks and beaches.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/yoga-classes-san-diego-beach">Continue reading...</a>