United States Second Circuit
DESTEFANO v. EMERGENCY HOUS. GROUP, INC., 99-9146
State's funding of alcholic treatment facility does not violate the Establishment Clause despite the facility's inclusion in its program of religious Alcoholics Anonymous sessions, if the facility's staff neither coerces clients to attend such sessions nor itself indoctrinates them.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/16/2000
- Decided 05/08/2001
- Published 05/08/2001
Judges
- SACK, Circuit Judge:, Before McLAUGHLIN, SACK, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Robert N. Isseks, Middletown, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- David Lawrence III, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Edward D. Johnson, Deputy Solicitor General, and Mark Gimpel, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.