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6th Circuit Permits Evangelist To Distribute Literature On Outskirts of Arab Festival

By Howard M. Friedman

In Saieg v. City of Dearborn, (6th Cir., June 17, 2010), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction pending appeal to permit a Christian evangelist to distribute religious literature on the streets in the "outer perimeter" or "buffer zone" of the 2010 Dearborn Arab International Festival this week. A federal district court had upheld festival rules that required literature distribution take place only from a booth in the vendor area. (See prior posting.) The 6th Circuit said that prior case law supports restricting leaflet distribution among crowds in the core area of the Festival, but not in the surrounding streets. The Thomas More Law Center issued a release on the decision and the Detroit Free Press reports on the decision.

Meanwhile the Detroit Free Press reports that on Friday four Christian missionaries with a group called Acts 17 Apolegitics were arrested at the Festival on charges of disorderly conduct.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 20, 2010 (boomark / email).