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A federal court ruled that Loogootee, Indiana, violated the First Amendment rights of Pride festival organizers.

The court's injunction allows the Pride festival to take place in the city's public square as originally requested.

The ruling found the city's ordinance was not narrowly tailored and burdened more speech than necessary.

A Pride festival will take place this weekend in the public square of a rural Indiana city after a federal district court found the city's previous event policies had violated organizers' First Amendment rights.

Judge Richard L. Young, who presides over the District Court of Southern Indiana, found that Loogootee, Indiana, violated the event organizers' constitutional rights after the city passed several restrictive changes to its specia

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