- Posted March 02, 2012
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Dearborn pays $100,000 in lawsuit by evangelists
DEARBORN (AP) -- The city of Dearborn has paid $100,000 in legal fees to attorneys for a Christian evangelist whose free-speech rights were violated at a popular Arab-American street festival.
Dearborn has a large Muslim population and one of the nation's biggest concentrations of people with roots in the Arab world.
In 2010, city police barred George Saieg and his allies from freely walking sidewalks with literature to convert Muslims to Christianity. Chief Ron Haddad says he was just controlling foot traffic, but a federal appeals court says the city violated the First Amendment.
The court says allowing the evangelists on the festival's perimeter wasn't good enough.
As the prevailing party, Saieg was entitled to legal fees and other costs from Dearborn. His lawyers say the money was paid last week.
Published: Fri, Mar 2, 2012
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