United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal as moot of a taxpayer's suit alleging violation of the Establishment Clause by the Department of Education is reversed and remanded for discussion of the merits where the fact that injunctive relief was no longer possible did not foreclose on the possibility of restitutionary relief.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2007
• Decided 04/13/2006
• Published 04/13/2006

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jacquelyn E. Bowie Suess (argued), Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lowell Sturgill (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee., Michael A. Carvin (argued), Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.