FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION v. STATE

No. 92CA0107.

872 P.2d 1256 (1993)

THE FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC., a Wisconsin non-profit corporation; The Colorado Chapter of The Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.; Jeff Baysinger; Harold Huguley; Glenn V. Smith; and Lee Whitfield, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The STATE of Colorado; Roy Romer, Governor of the State of Colorado; Department of Administration, State of Colorado; and Forrest Cason, Executive Director, Department of Administration, Defendants-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied August 19, 1993.

Certiorari Granted May 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Tiernan, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., Dianne E. Eret, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendants-appellees.

Coghill & Goodspeed, P.C., John P. Baker, Denver, for amicus curiae American Civ. Liberties Union of Colorado, Inc.


Opinion by Judge CRISWELL.

Plantiffs, two non-profit corporations and several individual citizens of Colorado, filed this action against the State of Colorado, the Governor, the State Department of Administration, and the department's executive director (collectively, the State), seeking the removal of a stone monument containing the Ten Commandments located in Lincoln Park near the state capitol in Denver and alleging that the stone's existence in its present location...

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