Route66Lovers@2LanesForever.com.invalid (Dusty Rhodes) wrote:
:|Then you should be able to quote (from the decision) the law that was
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DATE:
NOVEMBER 18, 2002
CASE:
STEPHEN R. GLASSROTH v. MOORE CIVIL ACTION NO. 01-T-1268-N
ISSUE: (Legal question asked)
The question presented to this court is whether the Chief Justice
of the Alabama Supreme Court violated the Establishment Clause
when he placed a slightly over two-and-a-half ton granite
monument--engraved with the Ten Commandments and other
references to God--in the Alabama State Judicial Building with
the specific purpose and effect, as the court finds from the
evidence, of acknowledging the Judeo-Christian God as the moral
foundation of our laws.
HOLDING/RATIONALE
To answer this question, the court applies two Supreme Court precedents:
Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 91 S. Ct. 2105 (1971), and Marsh v.
Chambers, 463 U.S. 783, 103 S. Ct. 3330 (1983).
Based on the evidence presented during a week-long trial and for the
reasons that follow, this court holds that the evidence is overwhelming and
the law is clear that the Chief Justice violated the Establishment Clause.
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