United States Sixth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of county defendant in a First Amendment Establishment Clause challenge to its courthouse display containing the Ten Commandments is affirmed where the predominant purpose of the display is secular and the display does not endorse religion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2005
• Published 12/20/2005

Judges

• Before:  SUHRHEINRICH and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges;  RICE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David A. Friedman, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants.  Francis J. Manion, American Center for Law and Justice, New Hope, Kentucky, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  David A. Friedman, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants.  Francis J. Manion, American Center for Law and Justice, New Hope, Kentucky, Mathew D. Staver, Erik W. Stanley, Liberty Counsel, Longwood, Florida, for Appellees.