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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.
A Washington state high school football coach who won a Supreme Court case in 2022 after he lost his job for praying at the 50-yard line after games has resigned from his position.
Bremerton School District (2022), addressed this distinction. In that case, a high school football coach, Joseph Kennedy, was disciplined for praying on the field after games.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Joe Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School.
In 2015, the school came to national attention following the suspension of football coach Joe Kennedy, who would pray at the 50-yard line of the field after varsity games. In 2022, the resulting lawsuit reached the Supreme Court, where it was decided in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022) that Kennedy's First Amendment rights had been ...
In 2015, Joseph Kennedy served as assistant football coach at Bremerton High School, where his children attended as students. His wife was the district's director of human resources. In 2007, he swore an oath that he would kneel at the 50-yard line to pray after each game, and he maintained this practice up until October 2015. [1]
The prayers drew big crowds and protests, and the Bremerton, Washington, school district placed him on leave and then refused to renew his contract. Coach fired for praying on the field wins ...
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.