United States Eleventh Circuit

A court clerk's seal does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment when the seal contains an outline of the Ten Commandments, a sword, and the name of the court, and the seal is used solely to authenticate documents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2003
• Published 06/03/2003

Judges

• KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and KRAVITCH and GIBSON , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald R. Weber,American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Atlanta, GA, John Paul Batson, Augusta, GA, Robert Lo-Pei Tsai, ACLU of GA, Eugene, OR, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Alexander J. Luchenitser, Ayesha N. Khan, Americans United from Separation of Church & State, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, Am. United for Separation of Church & State.


• For Appellees:
  
• James W. Ellison, Burnside, Wall, Daniel, Ellison & Revell, Augusta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.