Freedom from Religion Found., Inc. v. Concord Cmty. Sch.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
Since ancient times, people have been celebrating the winter solstice, which occurs *1041around the third week of December in the Northern Hemisphere. Many of these celebrations are religious in nature, and so in the modern United States they have led to a depressingly steady stream of First Amendment challenges, in which one party wishes to express its religious views in the public sphere and the other party asserts that the Establishment Clause would be violated by the display.
Our case fits that pattern to a T. It arose in Elkhart, Indiana, which is served by the Concord…
Also in this document: Concurring in the judgment.
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- County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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