AMERICAN CIVIL LIB. UNION v. CAPITAL SQ. REVIEW

No. C2-97-863.

20 F.Supp.2d 1176 (1998)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CAPITOL SQUARE REVIEW AND ADVISORY BOARD, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

September 1, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark B. Cohn, Trial Attorney, Cooperating Attorney, ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Cleveland, OH, Thomas D. Buckley, Jr., (Pro Hac Vice), Trial Attorney, Cooperating Attorney, ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Cleveland, OH, Joan M. Englund, Trial Attorney, Trial Attorney, Legal Director, ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Cleveland, OH, Scott T. Greenwood, Trial Attorney, Cooperating Attorney, ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiffs; David Goldberger, Cooperating Attorney, ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Columbus, OH, Louis A. Jacobs, Cooperating Attorney, ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc., Upper Arlington, OH, of counsel.

Betty D. Montgomery, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Michael Renner, Chief Counsel, Jeffrey S. Sutton, State Solicitor, David M. Gormley, Arthur J. Marziale, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Office of Ohio Atty. Gen., Columbus, OH, John G. Stepanovich, Chesapeake, VA, (Attorney for Amicus Curiae American Center for Law and Justice), for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

GRAHAM, District Judge.

The issue presented in this case is whether the official motto of the state of Ohio "With God All Things Are Possible" is an endorsement of religion forbidden by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.1 The plaintiffs are the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, Inc., and Matthew Peterson, a Presbyterian minister. The defendants include...

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