A suit was filed this week in a California federal district court against the Huntington Beach School District for barring a 2nd and a 5th-grade student from handing out flyers promoting Focus on the Family's "Bring Your Bible to School Day." The complaint (
full text) in
M.B. v. Huntington Beach City School District, (CD CA, filed 1/7/2019), contends that plaintiffs' free speech, free exercise, equal protection and due process rights were infringed by not allowing them to distribute the flyers at lunch, recess and other non-instructional times during the school day. School officials limited the distribution to before- and after-school hours.
OC Weekly reports on the lawsuit.