Legal Opinion

Red River Freethinkers v. City of Fargo

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided May 25, 2012No. 10-3214PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Government displays of the Ten Commandments sometimes will violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, see McCreary Cnty., Ky. v. ACLU of Ky., 545 U.S. 844, 125 S.Ct. 2722, 162 L.Ed.2d 729 (2005), other times they will not, see Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677, 125 S.Ct. 2854, 162 L.Ed.2d 607 (2005).

This appeal presents the question whether a city commission’s adoption of an initiated ordinance that in effect countermanded the commission’s earlier decision to remove from municipal property a Ten Commandments monument imbued the monument with an…

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3Cited by42 opinions

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