Legal Opinion
Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Hodel
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 11, 1985No. Civ. A. 85-3861PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
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This is an action for declaratory and injunctive relief brought by the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) and Mitch Snyder, its primary spokesperson. Defendants are Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, and Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Capital Region, of the National Park Service (Park Service).
The controversy in this case stems from the Park Service’s denial of CCNV’s request to include a statue it commissioned in the 1985 Christmas Pageant of Peace. The Christmas Pageant is an annual “national celebration event” held on…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary of the InteriorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1990
- Parks v. City of ColumbusCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2005
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- Irish Subcommittee of the Rhode Island Heritage Commission v. Rhode Island Heritage CommissionDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1986
- Bishop v. Reagan-Bush '84 CommitteeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987
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