Art Rojas v. City of Ocala, Florida

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA OCALA DIVISION ART ROJAS and LUCINDA HALE, Plaintiffs, Case No. 5:14-cv-651-TJC-PRL v. CITY OF OCALA, Defendant. ORDER I. PROLOGUE This is a case about whether the City of Ocala violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in the way it conducted a prayer vigil in the town square. In 2018, the Court ruled in favor of Plaintiffs, who are atheists. Rojas v. City of Ocala,

315 F. Supp. 2d 1256

(M.D. Fla. 2018). The Court’s opinion and the parties’ briefs all relied on the Lemon test (adopted in Lemon v. Kurtzman,

403 U.S. 602

(1971))…