GREENBELT, Md. (W.) Oct. 10, 2006 — Attorneys for the Rutherford Institute said they have have filed a civil rights lawsuit defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was allegedly ordered by a Maryland middle school employee to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action.
Institute attorneys have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to declare that prohibiting students from reading Bibles or other religious texts during their free time is unconstitutional.
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