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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.
In 2022, the justices reversed the 9th Circuit and upheld, in Kennedy vs. Bremerton, a free-speech claim from a football coach who defied school officials and insisted on praying at the 50-yard line.
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 the lower courts' decisions and holding that "The Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to ...
Case name Docket no. Date decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen: 20–843: June 23, 2022 Vega v. Tekoh: 21–499: June 23, 2022 Nance v.
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This is a list of cases that appeared before the Supreme Court of the ... Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, 597 U.S. ___ (2022) Religious institution ...
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022) The firing of a public high school football coach for saying a prayer on the field violated his First Amendment rights. The Court announced that the Lemon test from the landmark case of Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) had been abandoned by the Court in later cases.