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.
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