Legal Opinion
Harvey v. Cobb County, Ga.
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided January 13, 1993No. 1:92-cr-00045PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SHOOB, Senior District Judge.
This case requires the Court to decide whether a framed panel of the Ten Commandments and the so-called Great Commandment displayed in a county courthouse building violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. That decision affects not only the litigants in this case but more broadly our concept of full religious freedom — to believe or not to believe, to participate or not to participate, as one pleases — and whether we truly insist, as did Thomas Jefferson in 1802, that there must be a “wall of separation…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Allen v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Williams v. LaraTexas Supreme Court · 2001
- Glassroth v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- Pelphrey v. Cobb County, Ga.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008
- State v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1995
- Ex Parte State Ex Rel. JamesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1998
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