Joan Laskowski and Daniel M. Cook v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, and University of Notre Dame, Intervenor-Defendant/appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a taxpayer suit, originally to enjoin a grant by the Secretary of Education of money to the University of Notre Dame' to be used for a program called Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE). A congressional appropriation for fiscal year 2000 had earmarked $500,000 to be given Notre Dame for redistribution to several other religious colleges in order to enable them to replicate the ACE program on their own campuses. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000, 113 Stat. 1501, 1501A-262 (Nov. 29, 1999). The complaint alleges that the grant violated the First Amendment’s…
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