United States Fifth Circuit

In an Establishment Clause challenge to a Texas law providing for a mandatory moment of silence in public schools, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed, where the legislative history of the statute suggested that its purpose was to foster patriotism, and not to advance Protestant Christianity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2009
• Published 03/16/2009

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, BENAVIDES and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Woody Dean Cook (argued), Law Office of Dean Cook, Plano, TX, for David Croft and Shannon Croft., James C. Ho (argued), Susanna Dokupil, Austin, TX, for Perry., Ayesha Khan, Nancy B. Leong, Washington, DC, Lisa S. Graybill, Fleming Terrell, Austin, TX, for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Tex., Hiram Stanley Sasser (argued), Kelly J. Shackelford, Plano, TX, for Kevin Shelly, Michael Shelly, Morgan, Michaela Wade, Bailey Wade, Katherine Gualy, Sarah Gualy., David Andrew Cortman, Lawrenceville, GA, Benjamin W. Bull, Jeremy D. Tedesco, Scottsdale, AZ, for Alliance Defense Fund., Benjamin David DuPre, Law Offices of Benjamin D. DuPree, Montgomery, AL, for Foundation for Moral Law., Steven W. Fitschen, Virgina Bewach, VA, for Wallbuilders, Inc.