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Anti-Abortion Group Challenges Library's Rules For Use of Meeting Rooms

By Howard M. Friedman

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An anti-abortion group, 40 Days for Life, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against a Wisconsin public library that cancelled the group's scheduled showing in a library public meeting room of a film titled Blood Money. The library claimed that the film would interfere with normal use of the library and therefore was in violation of the library's rules for use of meeting rooms. The Memorandum in Support of Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction (full text) in 40 Days For Life of Wassau v. Illick, (WD WI, filed 3/30/2011), claims that the Marathon County (WI) library's standards for use of public meeting rooms are vague and place unlimited discretion in the hands of the library director and trustees. It also claims the rules are not viewpoint neutral. Thomas More Society yesterday issued a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).