Legal Opinion
Glassroth v. Moore
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided November 18, 2002No. Civil Action No. 01-T-1268-N. Civil Action No. 01-T-1269-NPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, made binding upon the States through the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that government “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The question presented to this court is whether the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court violated the Establishment Clause when he placed a slightly over two-and-a-half ton granite monument — engraved with the Ten Commandments and other references to God— in the Alabama State Judicial Building with the specific purpose…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Walz v. Tax Comm'n of City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Lynch v. DonnellySupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Glassroth v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- Kelly McGinley v. Gorman HoustonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2004
- Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc. v. GatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2007
- Beckerle v. MooreSupreme Court of Alabama · 2005
- Glassroth v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
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