Legal Opinion
Summum v. Salt Lake County
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 28, 1997No. 96-4191PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Chief Judge.
This appeal involves two consolidated actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Summum, a church, against Salt Lake County and its Commissioners (“the County”) based on the County’s denial of several requests made by Summum to erect a monolith displaying certain religious tenets of the Summum church near a Ten Commandments monolith located on the front lawn of the Salt Lake County Courthouse for the Third Judicial District. Summum alleges violations of the Establishment, Free Exercise, Free Speech, and Due Process Clauses of the United States Constitution and analogous…
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