United States Sixth Circuit

In a challenge to the Establishment Clause, the Court found that defendant-judge's display of a framed poster of the Ten Commandments on the wall of his courtroom, next to a poster of the Bill of rights, violated the Establishment Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2003
• Decided 07/14/2004
• Published 07/14/2004

Judges

• Before: BATCHELDER and COLE, Circuit Judges;  HOOD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David R. Langdon (briefed), Law Office of David R. Langdon, Cincinnati, OH, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott T. Greenwood,Greenwood & Associates, Cincinnati, OH, Raymond Vasvari (argued and briefed), American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Francis J. Manion (argued and briefed), American Center for Law and Justice, New Hope, KY, for Defendants-Appellants.