Legal Opinion
David Williamson v. Brevard County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 2019No. 17-15769PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Like many local governments, the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners opens its meetings with a religious invocation. These opening prayers are the subject of this litigation. A group of Secular Humanists and atheists challenge them as violating the Establishment Clause, arguing that the County has wrongfully barred them from offering invocations of their own.
Legislative prayers occupy a unique position in the framework of Establishment Clause jurisprudence, primarily because, as the Supreme Court put it, an "unambiguous and unbroken history of more than 200…
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