Opinion ID: 2798302
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The District Court’s First Order

Text: 5 Case: 14-13399 Date Filed: 05/04/2015 Page: 6 of 10 On July 3, 2014, the district court granted the defendant School Board’s motion to dismiss. The district court dismissed plaintiff FFRF’s claims for prospective relief without prejudice on the grounds that the subsequent acceptance by the School Board of the previously prohibited materials rendered the case moot. Specifically, the district court held that the FFRF had “not rebutted the presumption that [the School Board], as a government entity, will not reengage in the purportedly unconstitutional conduct that, to date, it has voluntarily ceased.” The district court found that the School Board “unambiguously expressed its position that each of the materials Plaintiffs sought to distribute will be unconditionally allowed.”