Alliance Defense Fund
announced yesterday that it had filed a Notice of Dismissal (
full text) in
Child Evangelism Fellowship Phoenix v. Dysart Unified School District, (D AZ, dismissal filed 4/26/ 2012). Plaintiffs had filed suit in January (
full text of complaint) challenging a school policy that allowed nonprofit organizations and community groups to distribute flyers in the schools, but excluding flyers "of a commercial, political or religious nature." According to the Notice of Dismissal:
7. Shortly after Plaintiffs filed their Complaint, the District approved the Plaintiffs’ requests to distribute Good News Club flyers at West Point Elementary and at another elementary school within the District where Plaintiffs were starting a Good News Club.
8. In addition, the District agreed to, and did on April 4, 2012, change Policies K-0900 and K-2300 so that they no longer expressly discriminate against religious speech and speakers, but instead grants them equal access to the District’s literature distribution forum.
