United States Eleventh Circuit

School policy of permitting a graduating student, elected by her class, to deliver an unrestricted message of her choice at the beginning and/or closing of graduation ceremonies does not necessarily violate the Establishment Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2001
• Published 05/11/2001

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, BIRCH, DUBINA, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS, WILSON, KRAVITCH and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Sheppard,D. Gray Thomas, Sheppard, White & Thomas, P.A., Jacksonville, FL, David B. IsBell, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Adler., Richard A. Mullaney, Ernst D. Mueller, Michael B. Wedner, Jacksonville, FL, Mathew Duane Staver, Longwood, FL, Frederick Herbert Nelson, Law Offices of Frederick H. Nelson, PA, Altamonte Springs, FL, for Duval Cty. Sch. Bd., Mathew D. Staver, Frederick H. Nelson, Staver & Associates, Orlando, FL, for Boles.