Demmon v. Loudoun County Public Schools

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CACHERIS, District Judge.

At issue in this case is whether a public school violates the Free Speech, Establishment, and Free Exercise Clauses of the United States and Virginia Constitutions when it removes bricks inscribed with the Latin Cross, purchased by parents and relatives of school students and graduates, from the school’s “walkway of fame,” located on school property.

I. Background

Beginning in 2001, a parent group associated with Loudoun County Public Schools, Parents Associated With the School (“PAWS”), initiated a fund-raising project through which PAWS solicited…