Kalman v. Cortes

MEMORANDUM

BAYLSON, District Judge.

Plaintiff has filed a civil rights action challenging the constitutionality of Title 15, Pa. Cons.Stat. § 1303(c)(2)(h) precluding the use of blasphemy in a corporate name on grounds that it violates the Establishment Clause and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Plaintiff, who attempted to include the word “hell” in the name of a corporation he was forming, challenges the statute both on its face and as applied, seeking a declaratory judgment that it violates his constitutional rights, a permanent injunction…