AMERICANS UNITED v. CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS

No. 1:90-CV-946.

784 F.Supp. 412 (1991)

AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, a corporation; Benjamin Baum; Phyllis Ball; Walter Bergman; John Charles Bearden; Gilbert R. Davis; and James T. Weaver, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, a municipal corporation, Defendant, and Chabad House of Western Michigan, Inc., a corporation, Intervenor.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan.

March 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert R. Dilley, Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiffs.

G. Douglas Walton, Deputy City Atty., Philip A. Balkema, City Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendant.

Richard G. Leonard, Rhoades, McKee, Boer, Goodrich & Titta, Grand Rapids, Mich., Nathan Lewin, David G. Webbert, Niki Kuckes, David I. Gelfand, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, D.C., for intervenor.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on plaintiffs' request for a permanent injunction barring the display of a menorah on Calder Plaza.1

Plaintiffs filed their complaint in this matter, accompanied by a motion for a preliminary injunction, on November 13, 1990. The Court held a hearing on plaintiffs' motion on December 5, 1990. At the hearing, the Court granted the plaintiffs' motion and enjoined...

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