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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 June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Joe Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School.
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 ...
Bremerton High School is four-year public secondary school in the port city of Bremerton, Washington, west across Puget Sound from Seattle, in the Bremerton School District. Between 1993 and 2007, Bremerton High School contained grades 10–12 for enrolled students, but starting in the 2008 school year, the school facilitates grades 9–12 ...
Kennedy had been living full-time in Florida during the legal battle but returned to Bremerton for the school's first game — a 27-12 win. Afterward, he reportedly knelt at midfield for 10 ...
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.
Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy says he is excited to get back to work after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the school district violated his ...
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. His wife was the district's director of human resources.