Skoros v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Agostini v. FeltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Abington School Dist. v. SchemppSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Widmar v. VincentSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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