Legal Opinion
Opinion No.
Texas Attorney General Reports
Decided December 1, 1978Published
1Opinion of the Court
Honorable Mike Westergren County Attorney Nueces County Courthouse Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
Re: Whether a religious statue can be erected on city property in Corpus Christi.
Dear Mr. Westergren:
You have asked our opinion on the following question:
[Is it] constitutionally permissible for the City of Corpus Christi to allow use of a public area in the bay front for the erection of a statue of Christ at no expense to the city either for installation or maintenance in commemoration of the discovery of Corpus Christi Bay by dePineda in year 1519 without violating either the First Amendment to the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Levitt v. Committee for Public Education & Religious LibertySupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Alma F. Anderson v. Salt Lake City Corporation and Salt Lake CountyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1973
- Reverend Thomas B. Allen v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the InteriorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Eugene Sand & Gravel, Inc. v. City of EugeneOregon Supreme Court · 1976
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