Legal Opinion
Turner v. Habersham County, Georgia
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided November 17, 2003No. 4:02-cv-00039PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’KELLEY, Senior Distinct Judge.
The Ten Commandments constitute the holy law as delivered by God to Moses at Mount Sinai and express tenants central to Jewish and Christian faiths. Many of those who have devoted their professional lives to the study of legal history believe that those same Ten Commandments were also central to the formation of many secular legal systems. Prominent church-state commentator and Senior Ninth Circuit Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. believes they represent “the most influential law code in history.” John T. Noonan, Jr., The Believer and the Powers That Are 4…
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