Court Opinion

ID: 9632332
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:10:46.241001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:35.657508
License: Public Domain

BEAM, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the court’s opinion affirming a permanent injunction. I write separately to express my concern over the standing alone breadth of the injunction’s prohibitory language. It is my understanding that the stated restraint prohibits only an earlier practice of the school district that permitted Gideons to personally distribute (Christian) Bibles to fifth grade students inside their classroom during school hours. I believe the injunction does not purport to address the merits, or lack thereof, of any district policies concerning distribution of literature to students under other cireum*565stances. And, as noted by the court in footnote 3, ante at 561, any attempted overreaching by any party or the district court may be immediately remedied through equitable relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5). See Horne v. Flores, — U.S. —, — —, 129 S.Ct. 2579, 2594-95, 174 L.Ed.2d 406 (2009).
Accordingly, I concur.