(Sioux City)– A federal judge has ruled an Iowa sheriff violated a man’s first amendment rights when he denied the man’s application for a permit to carry a weapon.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett ordered Osceola County Sheriff Douglas Weber to issue a permit to carry a weapon to Paul Dorr of Ocheyedan.
The ruling states that Weber approved a permit for Dorr in previous years when Dorr traveled the country to protest outside abortion clinics and only denied Dorr’s request after he began working with a taxpayer’s group questioning county spending in 2007.
Bennett also ordered Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution.
Weber declined comment.
(Story from the Associated Press).
