United States Second Circuit

New York City's holiday display policy for its public schools, both on its face and as applied by the defendants, comports with the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment and does not violate a parent's right to control the religious upbringing and education of her children.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2006
• Published 02/02/2006

Judges

• Before:  FEINBERG, STRAUB, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Muise, Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Troy King, Attorney General;  Kevin C. Newsom, Solicitor General;  Charles B. Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, State of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama, Amicus Curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cheryl Payer (Stephen J. McGrath, on the brief), for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees., Daniel S. Alter, Steven M. Freeman, David L. Barkey, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York;  Robert G. Sugarman, Todd D. Ommen, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York, Amicus Curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees.