Paulsen v. Lehman

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SPATT, District Judge.

At issue in the plaintiff’s application for a preliminary injunction is whether the defendants’ denial of the plaintiff’s request to distribute noncommercial religious pamphlets in a limited area of Jones Beach State Park comports with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Court concludes that the defendants’ action in denying a limited permit to the plaintiff is constitutionally impermissible. Accordingly, plaintiff’s application for a preliminary injunction is granted to the extent set forth below.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff is the…