Many of the people who are being shut out or shut down have actually already paid fees to use the space or run their restaurants. So that may have had a part in the decision. F'U Obama....



Fed up that the federal shutdown was keeping them off their practice fields, a group of young lacrosse players in Northern Virginia challenged the government in court. And at least for now, they won.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the National Park Service to immediately reopen Langley Fork Park in McLean — which was closed Oct. 1 — and allow the boys and girls of the McLean Youth Lacrosse organization back onto the fields.

The judge’s order was not final. Attorneys are scheduled to return to federal court in Alexandria on Oct. 18 — provided the courthouse is still open and judges are still hearing civil cases — to hash out a more permanent resolution. But until then, Langley Fork Park will be open for the hundreds of kids in the youth lacrosse group, which sued the Park Service, and for anyone else who might want to use it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crim...story.html

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. We're winning this argument.

The article didn't mention if this action was opposed. Was it?

I'm sure Eric Witholder will sue VA.

(10-11-2013 09:24 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  I'm sure Eric Witholder will sue VA.

Yeah, he probably will unless "his people" use it.

(10-11-2013 06:13 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Many of the people who are being shut out or shut down have actually already paid fees to use the space or run their restaurants. So that may have had a part in the decision. F'U Obama....



Fed up that the federal shutdown was keeping them off their practice fields, a group of young lacrosse players in Northern Virginia challenged the government in court. And at least for now, they won.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the National Park Service to immediately reopen Langley Fork Park in McLean — which was closed Oct. 1 — and allow the boys and girls of the McLean Youth Lacrosse organization back onto the fields.

The judge’s order was not final. Attorneys are scheduled to return to federal court in Alexandria on Oct. 18 — provided the courthouse is still open and judges are still hearing civil cases — to hash out a more permanent resolution. But until then, Langley Fork Park will be open for the hundreds of kids in the youth lacrosse group, which sued the Park Service, and for anyone else who might want to use it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crim...story.html

Someone needs to tell all these park rangers interfering with photographers and violating rights the government is shut down and they should go home.