Mar 23, 2009 2:39 pm US/Pacific
Minutemen Fight Puts Highway Cleanup On Hold


California's Adopt-A-Highway program was on hold while the state tried to sort out a legal fight with an anti-illegal immigrant group.

Lawyers for the San Diego Minutemen said the Department of Transportation is drafting new rules for the litter cleanup program to prevent the group from getting a sign with its name on it along the freeway.

CalTrans initially granted a stretch of highway near a border checkpoint to the group. When the state took down the sign, a judge ordered it to be put back up. When the state offered the group a new location, the Minutemen refused.

CalTrans was drafting new rules that would allow the state greater flexibility in refusing applicants.

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