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McLean Youth Lacrosse fights government shutdown in court; Langley Fork Park reopens
That's McLean, Virginia. Take that, gummint.
McLean Youth Lacrosse fights government shutdown in court; Langley Fork Park reopens
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/mclean-youth-lacrosse-beats-government-shutdown-in-court-langley-fork-park-reopens/2013/10/10/c79ad664-31d3-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html
By Matt Zapotosky, Published: October 10
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.
