United States Second Circuit

Permanent injunction barring defendants from enforcing Standard Operating Procedure Manual section 5.11, denying plaintiff Christian church from using city school facilities for Sunday worship services, is vacated, however, as the members of the appellate panel hold disparate views as to the ripeness of the case and whether the injunction should be vacated, the case is without a rationale to which a majority agrees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2007
• Published 07/02/2007

Judges

• Before:  WALKER, LEVAL, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David White, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section (Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General, Dennis J. Dimsey and Eric W. Treene, Attorneys, Washington, DC, Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David J. Kennedy and Andrew W. Schilling, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, NY, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America., Mitchell A. Karlan (Aric H. Wu, Marci R. Etter, and Farrah L. Pepper, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Carol Nelkin, Jeffrey P. Sinensky, and Kara H. Stein, the American Jewish Committee, on the brief), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae the American Jewish Committee., Anthony J. Costantini, the Committee on Education and the Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Jonathan R. Bell, Rosemary Halligan, and Laura L. Himelstein, on the brief), New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Committee on Education and the Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Cortman, Alliance Defense Fund, Lawrenceville, GA (Jordan W. Lorence, Benjamin W. Bull, and Joseph P. Infranco, Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, AZ, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Jane L. Gordon, Senior Counsel, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, Edward F.X. Hart, Lisa Grumet, and Janice Casey Silverberg, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.