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Suit Challenges Literature Distribution Ban On Behalf of Evangelist

By Howard Friedman

The Alliance Defense Fund announced on Friday that it had filed suit in federal district court challenging an ordinance of Kewaskum, Wisconsin that prohibits the distribution of literature on public or private property, except to individuals willing to accept handbills. The complaint in Foht v. Village of Kewaskum, (D WI, filed 2/8/2008), alleges that the ordinance acts as a prior restraint in preventing traveling evangelist Michael Foht from leaving religious information at homes and on cars. An AP story on Friday reports on the lawsuit.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).