Galloway v. Town of Greece

DECISION AND ORDER

CHARLES J. SIRAGUSA, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This is an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 1 , in which the plaintiffs, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens (“Plaintiffs”), allege that the practice of the Town of Greece’s (“Defendant” or “the Town”) of opening Town Board meetings with prayer violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs, who are Jewish and Atheist, respectively, maintain that the Town has “aligned itself with” Christianity, because the vast majority of clergy selected to give prayers at town…