Philadelphia ? Sybil Peachlum has been fighting York City Hall for a decade over a lawn sign with an anthropomorphized peach holding a newspaper with the headline, “Peachy News. Jesus is Alive.”

One of the highest courts in the land says she has a case.

Sybil Peachlum

The city says the 3 1/2-foot by 5-foot sign, left, planted in Peachlum’s front yard, violates zoning rules. Peachlum says the ban violates her right to free speech.

A lower court had dismissed her lawsuit seeking to keep the sign, but the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated it Thursday, declaring that after years of languishing before a city appeals board, her case deserves to be decided by a judge.

“Peachlum’s claim,” the court wrote, “is clearly ripe.”