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FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC. v. ZIELKE

No. 87-2160.

845 F.2d 1463 (1988)

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC., a Wisconsin Nonstock Corporation, Phyllis Grams, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and Anne Nicol Gaylor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Patrick ZIELKE, individually and as Mayor of the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Common Council of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and City of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Jacobson, Borns, MacAulay & Jacobson, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs-appellants.

G. Jeffrey George, Steele, Klos & Flynn Chtd., LaCrosse, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Phyllis Grams, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Anne Nicol Gaylor, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. (collectively "the appellants") filed an action in federal court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to enjoin the City of La Crosse from displaying a monument of the Ten Commandments in a city park. The appellants alleged that the display violated their rights under the first and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution to be free from public...

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