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Establishment Clause
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School Law
Should School Districts Allow Their Students To Perform Religious Themed Songs at Holiday Concerts?
The case Stratechuck v. Board of Education, 587 F.3d 597, 610 (C.A.3 (N.J.), 2009), (which the United States Supreme Court declined at the start of this term to hear), involved…
Land Use Prof Blog
Lund on Salazar v. Buono and the Future of the Establishment Clause
Christopher C. Lund (Wayne State) has posted Salazar v. Buono and the Future of the Establishment Clause, forthcoming in Northwestern Law Review Colloquy, This short Colloquy essay reflects on the Supreme…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
State Police Cross Memorials Violate Establishment Clause
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
A three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit ruled on Wednesday that 12-foot high crosses erected on public land to memorialize fallen Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) officers by the the Utah Highway Patrol…
School Law
Graduation Ceremony Does Not Violate Establishment Clause: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
A federal district court in Wisconsin has ruled that a school district did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by holding high school graduation ceremonies at a…
Media Law Prof Blog
Speech and the Establishment Clause
Supreme Court Update
Salazar v. Buono (08-472)
By Kim Rinehart
The Court released a major First Amendment decision on Wednesday in Salazar v. Buono (08-472). One Latin cross, approximately eight feet tall, on a rock in the middle of the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Mala Corbin on Ceremonial Deism and the Reasonable Religious Outsider
Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted on SSRN her forthcoming article in the UCLA Law Review: Ceremonial Deism and the Reasonable Religious Outside.Here is the abstract: State invocations of God…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Milwaukee Sheriff’s Religious Presentations to Deputies Violated Establishment Clause
Interesting public employment case. Here are the facts of Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association v. Clarke, 08-1515 (7th Cir. Dec. 4, 2009):Despite complaints from other employees, the [religious group, the] Centurions,…
De Novo
Career-Limiting Mistake #37: The “Satirical” Question Presented
By Jay O'Keeffe
Apologies for the delay since my last post. I was tied up in trial for part of last week, and recovering for the rest of it. I was so busy, in…
inversecondemnation.com
US Seeks Cert Review in the Mojave Cross Case
Thanks to Professor Friedman's Religion Clause blog for the post about the federal government seeking Supreme Court review of the Ninth Circuit's decision in Buono v. Kempthorne, No. 05-55852 (Sep.…