United States DC Circuit

In a suit brought by current and former Navy chaplains alleging that the Navy unconstitutionally established and maintained a religious quota system for the promotion, assignment, and retention of Navy chaplains that disadvantaged chaplains of non-liturgical Protestant faiths, a district court's judgment denying preliminary injunctive relief is vacated where plaintiffs satisfied the requisite showing of irreparable harm for an Establishment Clause violation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/09/2006
• Decided 07/07/2006
• Published 07/07/2006

Judges

• Before:  HENDERSON, ROGERS and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur A. Schulcz, Sr. argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert M. Loeb, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellees.   Wit him on the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney, and I. Glenn Cohen, Attorney.