Glassroth v. Moore

FINAL JUDGMENT AND INJUNCTION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

On November 18, 2002, this court entered an opinion and judgment holding that defendant Roy S. Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution by placing a Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the Alabama State Judicial Building. Glassroth v. Moore, 229 F.Supp.2d 1290 (M.D.Ala.2002). Chief Justice Moore was given thirty days to remove the monument voluntarily, and he failed to do so.

On December 19, 2002, the court issued a…