Legal Opinion
Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Nicholson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 2008No. 07-1292PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, including Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. and three individual federal taxpayers (collectively, “Freedom From Religion”), commenced this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the defendants, five high-level employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (collectively, the “VA”), were violating the Establishment Clause. The complaint sought both declaratory and injunc-tive relief. The district court granted the VA’s motion for summary judgment. Freedom From Religion filed a timely appeal.
For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we…
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