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AMERICAN CIV. LIB. U. OF MISS. v. MISS. STATE GSA

Civ. A. No. J86-0810(B).

652 F.Supp. 380 (1987)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI, John Kratochvil, Nana Kratochvil, Sameerah Muhammed, Felder Rushing, Stephen Silberman, Plaintiffs, v. The MISSISSIPPI STATE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, Jimmy Palmer, Director, and Mississippi Bureau of Capital Facilities, Pat Simon, Director, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

January 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Rose, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

T. Hunt Cole, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

ORDER

BARBOUR, District Judge.

This case presents the questions whether the display of a lighted cross on a state owned building during the Christmas season is unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and, if so, whether the additional display of other secular symbols of the season on other sides of the same building at the same time renders the display of the cross constitutional. The...

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