Legal Opinion
Briggs v. State of MS
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2003No. 02-60737PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Briggs’s pro se complaint, filed June 29, 2001, alleged that Mississippi violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by using public property and funds to fly the state flag in that the flag’s union or canton square is the Confederate battle flag which displays “the St. Andrew’s Cross (or Southern Cross), long regarded by many to reflect a particular religious heritage,” and this was offensive to Briggs as he was “a Miracle Muslim.” The only defendant mentioned in the complaint is the State of Mississippi. The relief requested was that “a just…
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