United States Fifth Circuit

Where the ultimate question in an Establishment Clause case is the equality of treatment, the district court should examine the targeted program in its full context, viewing it as it actually operates in its setting, including other programs similar in purpose and function.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/29/2001
• Published 01/29/2001

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and POLITZ, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott David Newar (argued), Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Mark S. Finkelstein, John D. Faucher, Lawrence Bradley Hancock, Shannon, Martin, Finkelstein & Sayre, Houston, TX, for Anti-Defamation League, Amicus Curiae., Steven Keith Green, Americans United for Separation of Church & State, Washington, DC, for Americans United for Separation of Church & State, Amicus Curiae., Mark D. Stern, American Jewish Congress, New York City, for American Jewish Congress, Amicus Curiae., Lisa A. Brown, Christopher Blewer Gilbert, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, TX, for Texas Ass'n of Sch. Bds., The Texas Ass'n of Sch. Administrators and Texas Council of Sch. Attys., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melody Gayle Thomas (argued), Tanner Truett Hunt, Jr., J. Mitchell Smith, Wells, Peyton, Greenberg & Hunt, Beaumont, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.