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Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022), is a landmark decision [1] by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.
Kennedy became an assistant coach of the varsity football team at Bremerton High School in 2008 and later began offering a brief prayer on the field after games ended and the players and coaches ...
The nation’s high court on Monday ruled in favor of Joseph Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at a public high school in Bremerton, Wash., who was suspended by the school district for ...
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In Part III of Justice O'Connor's opinion, which did not reach a majority of the Court, she applied the Lemon Test to find that the Equal Access Act is constitutional as applied in this case. Justice Kennedy , meanwhile, analyzed the application of the Act under different Court precedents, focusing more upon "coercion".
I've reviewed the various opinions the Court issued in American Legion, and my confidence in my previous comment--and Sotomayor's characterization of the state of play of Lemon prior to Kennedy--is bolstered. it looks like a strong case for saying the Court stopped shy in American Legion of overruling Lemon (which therefore makes Kennedy the ...
The high court’s recent decision over a praying Bremerton football coach — Kennedy v. Bremerton School District — did not alter law “regarding these kinds of coercive prayer practices, nor ...
Good News Club v. Milford Central School, 533 U.S. 98 (2001), was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court written by Clarence Thomas holding that a public school's exclusion of a club from its limited public forum based solely on the club's religious nature was impermissible viewpoint discrimination.