Pro-gun flyer flap. (Making a Difference).In June 2000, the Montclair, New Jersey, Board of Education had students take home a flyer announcing a rally, sponsored by a gun control group known as Ceasefire New Jersey, urging the state assembly to approve a then-pending gun control measure. Yet when pro-gun Moms for Gun Safety (MGS MGS Mars Global Surveyor MGS Metal Gear Solid MGS Microsoft Game Studios MGS Ministry of Government Services (Ontario, Canada) MGS Maryland Geological Survey MGS Malaysian Government Securities MGS Minnesota Geological Survey ) - an affiliate of the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC ANJRPC Association Nationale des Journalistes Reporters Photographes et Cinéastes (France) ANJRPC Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs ) - sought to have students take home a flyer announcing a rally opposing the legislation, the request was denied. In October 2000, MGS and the ANJRPC sued the school board in U.S. District Court for allegedly violating their free speech rights under the First Amendment and denying them equal protection of the law equal protection of the law n. the right of all persons to have the same access to the law and courts, and to be treated equally by the law and courts, both in procedures and in the substance of the law. under the 14th Amendment. The suit, however, was eventually settled out of court. Under terms of the settlement, the school board acknowledged that it violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. its own policies by distributing flyers supporting one side of the legislative controversy while barring handouts espousing the other side. A May 20th ANJRPC press release noted that the accord "guarantees that the School Board will treat proSecond Amendment groups on an equal footing with anti-Second Amendment groups.... [T]he ANJRPC will have access to the school system to conduct events, essay contests, grant scholarships and seek establishment of a student club. If the School Board amends AMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a wrong committed. 1 Lilly's Reg. 81. 2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes in some of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an its policies in the future to bar such activities, they must be applied equally to all organizations." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ANJRPC Executive Vice President Scott Bach, the settlement "sends a message to every publicly funded school in America: If you try to stifle debate on the Second Amendment, you're going to be held fully accountable." |
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