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HARRIS v. CITY OF ZION, LAKE COUNTY, ILL.

Nos. 90-1542, 90-1673.

927 F.2d 1401 (1991)

Clint W. HARRIS and The Society of Separationists, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF ZION, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Mayor of Zion and Zion City Council, Defendants-Appellants. Theodore M. KUHN and The Society of Separationists, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF ROLLING MEADOWS, Mayor of Rolling Meadows and Rolling Meadows City Council, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Gutman, Carlisle, Pa., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Roderick A. Palmore, Paul S. Chervin, Jane Z. Bohrer, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Charles F. Marino, Chicago, Ill., Berle L. Schwartz, Goble & Alexrod, Highland Park, Ill., Adeline J. Geo-Karis, Zion, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Darrell Dunham, Carbondale, Ill., for amicus curiae.

Donald M. Rose, Kathleen Ross, Rose & Ross, Rolling Meadows, Ill., for defendants-appellees, Mayor of Rolling Meadows, Rolling Meadows City Council and City of Rolling Meadows.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

BAUER, Chief Judge.

In these two appeals, consolidated for decision in the district court, we are asked to determine whether the Establishment Clause of the first amendment prohibits the use of sectarian religious symbolism on a municipality's corporate seal. In both cases, we find that sectarian religious imagery simply has no place on municipal seals.

In Kuhn v. City of Rolling Meadows and Harris v. City of Zion, both at 729...

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