LUBBOCK CIV. LIB. UNION v. LUBBOCK IND. SCH. DIST.

No. 80-2384.

669 F.2d 1038 (1982)

LUBBOCK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LUBBOCK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 11, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Griffith, Wendell Coffee, Ralph H. Brock, Lubbock, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Albach, Gutow, Rosenberg & Blume, Stephen Gutow, Dallas, Tex., Nathan Z. Dershowitz, American Jewish Congress, New York City, amicus curiae.

McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson, D. Thomas Johnson, Charles L. Cobb, Lubbock, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before POLITZ and RANDALL, Circuit Judges, and GORDON, District Judge.


RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

The Lubbock Civil Liberties Union (LCLU) appeals from a decision of the trial court in its suit brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 for declaratory and injunctive relief, damages and attorneys fees against the Lubbock Independent School District (the District) and several individual defendants. The LCLU alleged various practices and policies of the District constituted an impermissible establishment of religion in violation of...

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