United States Ninth Circuit

The Establishment Clause does not bar the government from protecting an historically and culturally important site simply because the site's importance derives at least in part from its sacredness to certain groups.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/12/2004
• Decided 09/01/2004
• Published 09/01/2004

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before B. FLETCHER, TROTT, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Perry Pendley, Christopher T. Masey, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, CO, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James N. Smith, Jr., Joe Acosta, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendants-appellees.