Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

Skoros v. City of New York

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided February 2, 2006No. Docket No. 04-1229-CVPublished

1Concurring in part, dissenting in partStraub, Circuit Judge

Today, the majority approves a policy directed at the participation of public school children in a year-end holiday celebration that utilizes religious symbols of certain religions, but bans the religious symbol of another. As I do not understand the law to countenance such in respect of the most impressionable of our society, I respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision on the Establishment Clause claim asserted by Plaintiff Andrea Skoros (“Skoros”). I concur, however, in the majority’s affirmance of the District Court’s rejection of Skoros’s Free Exercise and parental rights claims.

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2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  3. Agostini v. FeltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  4. Abington School Dist. v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. Widmar v. VincentSupreme Court of the United States · 1981

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