DOE v. COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, ILL.

No. 94-3015.

915 F.Supp. 32 (1996)

Jane DOE and Richard Roe, Plaintiffs, v. The COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, ILLINOIS, a body politic and corporate, Defendant.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Springfield Division.

February 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Craven, Springfield, IL, Harvey Grossman, Jane M. Whicher, Chicago, IL, E. Glenn Rippie, F. Thomas Hecht, James M. Falvey, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs.

Charles E. Hervas, Itasca, IL, Kathryn Dobrinic, Hillsboro, IL, for defendant.


OPINION

RICHARD MILLS, District Judge:

It was Thomas Jefferson who said,

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. (8 Otto) 145, 164, 25 L.Ed. 244 (1878...

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