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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 v. Bremerton School District, 869 F.3d 813 (9th Cir. 2017). Writing on behalf of an undivided panel, Smith held that a high school football coach spoke as a public employee when he would kneel and pray on the 50-yard line immediately after games, in full school apparel, while in view of students and parents.
Consequently, the case would have significant implications for freedom of expression in the United States. [2] Kennedy appealed the judgment, and the case eventually proceeded to the Supreme Court of the United States, which considered arguments in April 2022 and released its ruling in June 2022. The Court ruled in Kennedy's favor, reversing ...
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Cases dealing with civil and administrative regulatory procedures aimed at suppressing or restricting obscenity, such as film-licensing boards or zoning regulations. Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915) Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952) Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown (1957)
Bremerton's court saw an average of 1,200 to 1,300 case filings per year, with a few outliers, from 2011 to 2021, Hersey reported, and at least 90% of those cases required representation from a ...
Kennedy was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, in which the Court ruled 6-3 in Kennedy's favor, affirming that the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution does not mandate nor allow the school to suppress an individual's personal religious observance. [5]
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