Preliminary Injunction Issued To Permit Gideons To Distribute Bibles Near Schools

In Gray v. Kohl, (SD FL, Nov. 14, 2007), a Florida federal district court adopted a magistrate's earlier Report and Recommendation (June 29, 2007) and issued a preliminary injunction against enforcing Florida's School Safety Zone Statute against a Gideon who had been distributing Bibles within 500 feet of a Key Largo school. (See prior posting.) The magistrate's report concluded that the law was unconstitutionally vague, in particular because of the uncertainty of what constitutes having "legitimate business" near a school. Alliance Defense Fund issued a release praising the decision.