A federal judge on Friday “refused” to stop the White House from staging a UFC event this weekend on the South Lawn following a lawsuit aimed at halting it from going forward. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta‘s ruling allows organizers to “use the White House lawn as the venue” for the card. Mehta concluded that the plaintiffs “likely don’t have legal standing to challenge the event and have failed to prove that they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward as planned.” The judge also “cited the plaintiffs’ ‘unreasonable delay’ in suing to challenge an event that’s been in the works for months” (AP, 6/12).
Judge refuses to halt UFC White House event
