Legal Opinion
ATHEISTS OF FLORIDA v. City of Lakeland, Fla.
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided March 15, 2011No. Case 8:10-CV-1538-T-17PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
ELIZABETH A. KOVACHEVICH, District Judge.
This cause is before the Court on Defendants’, City of Lakeland and Mayor Gow Fields, Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 15) and Plaintiffs’, Atheists of Florida, Inc. and Ellenbeth Wachs, response thereto (Doc. 21). For the reasons set forth below, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is DENIED IN PART, as to Counts I and II, and GRANTED IN PART, as to Counts III and IV. The following facts, gleaned from Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint (Doc. 10) and the exhibits appended thereto, are taken as true for purposes of this motion.
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