Legal Opinion
Joyner v. Forsyth County, NC
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 29, 2011No. 10-1232PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge KEENAN joined. Judge NIEMEYER wrote a dissenting opinion.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
On December 17, 2007, Janet Joyner and Constance Lynn Blackmon decided to attend a meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. Like all public Board meetings, the gathering began with an invocation delivered by a local religious leader. And like almost every previous invocation, that prayer closed with the phrase, “For we do make this prayer in Your Son Jesus’ name, Amen.” The December 17 prayer also made a…
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