United States Second Circuit

In an Establishment Clause challenge to religious displays in a contract postal unit operated by a church, summary judgment for plaintiff is vacated where the Establishment Clause requires no more than that the postal counter be free of religious material, and that visual cues distinguish the space operating as a postal facility from the space functioning as purely private property.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2009
• Published 08/20/2009

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, WESLEY, Circuit Judge, and CROTTY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey A. Shafer, Benjamin W. Bull, Jordan W. Lorence, Matthew S. Bowman, Alliance Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., Joseph P. Secola, Secola Law Offices, Brookfield, CT, for Appellant., Murad Hussain, Ronald L. Johnston, Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Ayesha N. Khan, Alex J. Luchenitser, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, for Amicus Curiae Americans United for Separation of Church and State., Jeffrey I. Pasek, Cozen O'Connor, New York, NY, Theodore R. Mann, Jewish Social Policy Action Network, Philadelphia, PA, for Amicus Curiae Jewish Social Policy Action Network., Steven M. Freeman, Steven C. Sheinberg, Anti-Defamation League, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Anti-Defamation League.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aaron S. Bayer, Kevin M. Smith, Alex J. Glage, Wiggin and Dana LLP, New Haven, CT, Daniel Mach, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, D.C., David McGuire, Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Hartford, CT, for Appellees.