Legal Opinion
Jeffrey Michael Selman v. Cobb Co. School District
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 25, 2006No. 05-10341, 05-11725PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This is the Cobb County, Georgia evolution sticker case. It involves a message of thirty-three words on a sticker that the defendant school district and board of education had affixed inside the front cover of some science textbooks used in the public schools of the county. The plaintiffs, all of whom had children in those schools, brought suit claiming that the sticker violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Following a bench trial, the district court agreed with the plaintiffs and entered a permanent injunction ordering the defendants to remove the…
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