United States Ninth Circuit
Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights v. San Francisco, 06-17328
In an action by Catholics and a Catholic advocacy group against San Francisco on account of an official resolution denouncing their church and doctrines of their religion, the dismissal of the action is affirmed where: 1) adherents to a religion have standing to challenge an official condemnation by their government of their religious views, and official urging by their government that their local religious representative defy their church; but 2) the district court correctly dismissed the plaintiffs' lawsuit because duly-elected government officials had the right to speak out in their official capacities on matters of secular concern to their constituents.
Appellate Information
- Decided 10/22/2010
- Published 10/25/2010
Judges
- Andrew J. Kleinfeld
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Robert Joseph Muise, Vince Chhabria