BATAVIA, Ohio -- A southwestern Ohio public library that had barred a couple from holding a financial planning seminar because they intended to quote the Bible has settled a lawsuit brought by the couple.
George Vandergriff said Wednesday that the Clermont County Public Library board had paid $2 to him and his wife, Cathy, and $1 to the Institute for Principled Policy, which joined the couple in the suit.
The 10-branch system will also pay $10,000 to attorneys for the Vandergriffs, who filed the suit in a Cincinnati federal court in June. The couple had claimed that their First Amendment rights to free speech were violated when they were blocked from holding their seminar.
The library responded to the suit last summer by stopping use of its meeting rooms by all outside groups.
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