Challenge to Texas No Guns Sign Law Revived by Fifth Circuit (1)

A Texas church and coffee shop’s First Amendment suit against local law enforcement officials, challenging state laws that require them to post signs stating that guns aren’t allowed on their property, was revived by a split Fifth Circuit.

Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church and Drink Houston Better LLC have standing to pursue their lawsuit, because their evidence showed that they’re injured by enforcement of the law and their injury is traceable to the defendants’ enforcement of the law and may be redressable by a favorable decision, the unpublished Wednesday opinion by Judge James L. Dennis said for the US Court ...