United States Seventh Circuit

The display of the Ten Commandments in defendant-County's Administration Building is constitutional under the First Amendment where defendant's stated purposes -- to educate in the history of American law and politics and provide moral uplift -- are secular.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/03/2004
• Decided 03/25/2005
• Published 03/25/2005

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, EASTERBROOK and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth J. Falk (argued), Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Mathew D. Staver, Erik W. Stanley (argued), Liberty Counsel, Longwood, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.