03-1693 McCREARY
COUNTY, KY, ET AL. V. ACLU OF KY, ET AL.
Decision Below: 354 F.3d
438 (6th Cir. 2003)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
- Whether the Establishment
Clause is violated by a privately donated display
on government property that includes eleven equal size frames containing an
explanation of the display along with nine historical documents and symbols
that played a role in the development of American law and government
where only one of the framed documents is the Ten Commandments and the
remaining documents and symbols are secular.
- Whether a prior display
by the government in a courthouse containing the
Ten Commandments that was enjoined by a court permanently taints and
thereby precludes any future display by the same government when the
subsequent display articulates a secular purpose and where the Ten
Commandments is a minority among numerous other secular historical
documents and symbols.
- Whether the Lemon test
should be overruled since the test is unworkable and
has fostered excessive confusion in Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
- Whether a new test for
Establishment Clause purposes should be set forth by
this Court when the government displays or recognizes historical expressions
of religion.
Cert. Granted 10/12/04