Legal Opinion
John Satawa v. Macomb County Road Commission
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 1, 2012No. 11-1612PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
The Macomb County Road Commission faced a dilemma. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an organization dedicated to “protecting] the fundamental constitutional principle of separation of church and state,” had written a letter objecting to a private citizen’s placing a creche on a sixty-foot-wide median at Christmas time, as the citizen and his family had done for more than sixty years. The county immediately ordered the creche removed. In response, the Thomas More Law Center, an organization dedicated to “restor[ing] and defending] America’s Judeo-Christian…
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