Legal Opinion
Harris v. City of Zion
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 19, 1991No. Nos. 90-1542, 90-1673PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Chief Judge.
In these two appeals, consolidated for decision in the district court, we are asked to determine whether the Establishment Clause of the first amendment prohibits the use of sectarian religious symbolism on a municipality’s corporate seal. In both cases, we find that sectarian religious imagery simply has no place on municipal seals.
In Kuhn v. City of Rolling Meadows and Harris v. City of Zion, both at 729 F.Supp. 1242 (N.D.Ill.1990), the Society of Separa-tionists (“Society”) and two of its members, Theodore M. Kuhn and Clint W. Harris, filed suit against the cities of…
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