Legal Opinion
Bats v. Cobb County, Ga.
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided July 6, 2007No. Civil Action 1:05-CV-2075-RWSPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
STORY, District Judge.
By Order dated September 8, 2006, this Court granted summary judgment in part to Plaintiffs, concluding that the Cobb County Planning Commission’s procedure in 2003 and 2004 for inviting guests to deliver invocation prayers at its public meetings violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. See Pelphrey v. Cobb County, 448 F.Supp.2d 1357, 1374 (N.D.Ga.2006). The Court ordered the parties to submit additional briefing on the issue of appropriate relief. After reviewing the parties’ filings on this matter, the Court now enters the following Order.
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Pelphrey v. Cobb County, Ga.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008
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