From Jihad Watch:
Dearborn pays $100,000 to Christian whose free-speech rights were violated at Arab-American festival
The backdoor enforcement of Sharia suffers a costly setback. An update on this story. "Dearborn Pays $100,000 In Lawsuit By Evangelists," from WWJ and the Associated Press, March 1:
DEARBORN (WWJ/AP) - The city of Dearborn has paid $100,000 in legal fees to attorneys for a Christian evangelist whose free-speech rights were violated at a popular Arab-American street festival.
Dearborn has a large Muslim population and one of the nation’s biggest concentrations of people with roots in the Arab world.
The festival had offered George Saieg of Anaheim, Calif., a free booth in 2010, but city police in barred him and his allies from freely walking sidewalks with literature to convert Muslims to Christianity.
Chief Ron Haddad said he was just controlling foot traffic, but a federal appeals court said the city violated the First Amendment.
The court says allowing the evangelists on the festival’s perimeter wasn’t good enough.
As the prevailing party, Saieg was entitled to legal fees and other costs from Dearborn. His lawyers say the money was paid last week.
Posted by Marisol on March 1, 2012 7:57 AM |
Dearborn pays $100,000 to Christian whose free-speech rights were violated at Arab-American festival
The backdoor enforcement of Sharia suffers a costly setback. An update on this story. "Dearborn Pays $100,000 In Lawsuit By Evangelists," from WWJ and the Associated Press, March 1:
DEARBORN (WWJ/AP) - The city of Dearborn has paid $100,000 in legal fees to attorneys for a Christian evangelist whose free-speech rights were violated at a popular Arab-American street festival.
Dearborn has a large Muslim population and one of the nation’s biggest concentrations of people with roots in the Arab world.
The festival had offered George Saieg of Anaheim, Calif., a free booth in 2010, but city police in barred him and his allies from freely walking sidewalks with literature to convert Muslims to Christianity.
Chief Ron Haddad said he was just controlling foot traffic, but a federal appeals court said the city violated the First Amendment.
The court says allowing the evangelists on the festival’s perimeter wasn’t good enough.
As the prevailing party, Saieg was entitled to legal fees and other costs from Dearborn. His lawyers say the money was paid last week.
Posted by Marisol on March 1, 2012 7:57 AM |
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