United States Sixth Circuit

A provision of a Kentucky Senate Resolution, directing that a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments be made part of a historical and cultural display on Capitol grounds, under the facts is an impermissible endorsement of religion under the Establishment Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2001
• Decided 10/09/2002
• Published 10/09/2002

Judges

• Before: MARTIN, Chief Circuit Judge;  BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge;  SARGUS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward L. White, III, Thomas More Center for Law & Justice, Ann Arbor, MI, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Friedman (argued and briefed), American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, General Counsel, Louisville, KY, C. Laurie Griffith (briefed), Griffith Law Offices, Louisville, KY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Scott White (briefed), Jennifer L. Carrico (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Frankfort, KY, for Defendant-Appellant., Edna J. Turner, Theodore H. Amshoff, Jr., Amshoff & Amshoff, Louisville, KY, for Defendants.