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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, # 94 v. TOWN OF LEXINGTON

No. 01-2460.

272 F.3d 25 (2001)

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, COUNCIL # 94, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. TOWN OF LEXINGTON et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 29, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester Darling, with whom Robert Roughsedge and Michael Williams were on brief, for appellants.

Jordana Glasgow, with whom Daryl Lapp and Palmer & Dodge, LLP were on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and SINGAL, District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide whether the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts (the Town) violated the First Amendment by adopting a regulation that bans unattended structures from the historic Battle Green. The plaintiffs allege that this regulation infringes their First Amendment rights and that the Town adopted it for an improper purpose, viz., to exclude the annual religious display of a crèche from the Battle Green. They also...

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