Would the result be the same if a school required community service, but
prohibited students from fulfilling that obligation in a religious
setting, or excluding say Sunday school teaching from the list of
permissible placements?
Marc Stern
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Liberty Counsel had a case such as the one Marc describes. It settled favorably.
Here is the Liberty Counsel press release concerning the settlement of the case:
January 29, 2008
School Board Settles Lawsuit By Amending Policy and Accepting Student’s
Community Service Hours at Church
Long
A lawyer who's working on an Establishment Clause case asked me this question,
and I thought I'd pass it along: I was wondering if you knew ... about any
recent cases--on any level--or law review articles that do a particularly good
job discussing the current state of the Lemon test. I'm
Does anyone know of a link to a good edited version of Summum? I am teaching a
First Amendment Course this summer, and I would like to assign an edited
version of the case (with a link for students to access it).
Thanks, Rick
Rick Duncan
Welpton Professor of Law
University of Nebraska
Never mind. I found a link to an edited version of the Summum opinion. It is
here if others are interested.
Rick Duncan
Welpton Professor of Law
University of Nebraska College of Law
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
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LOL!
Sorry. I know this is serious. I feel his/her pain. I have nothing to
offer to help. But perhaps it may be of some comfort to the lawyer that at
least some of us who consider these matters with some frequency can't be
particularly helpful -- or if we are being helpful in some concrete
There is no reason for him to think he can find the holy grail of Lemon. On
these issues, litigators have to argue both/and, not either/or.
Marci
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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:05:07
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