Erie v. Hunter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA STORM ERIE CIVIL ACTION VERSUS NANCY HUNTER NO. 21-00267-BAJ-RLB RULING AND ORDER “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion[.]” U.S. Const. amend. I. Jurists still debate the outer limits of the Establishment Clause’s reach, but its core guarantee is settled: “government may not ‘make a religious observance compulsory.’” Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist., 142 S. Ct. 2407, 2429 (2022) (quoting Zorach v. Clauson,

343 U.S. 306, 314

(1952)). In this case, the evidence shows that Defendant Nancy Hunter—a psychiatric…