AMERICAN CIV. LIB. UNION OF TN v. RUTHERFORD CTY.

No. 3:02-0396.

209 F.Supp.2d 799 (2002)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE, (ACLU of Tennessee, Inc.), Leeann G. Anderson, Steve Dixon Cates, Joan G. Hill, Dawn Weiss Montgomery, Leon Richard Nuell, Joseph Donald Shaw, and Dale A. Tipps, Plaintiffs, v. RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE, and Nancy R. Allen, in her official capacity as County Executive, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

June 21, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Laurie Kay, Vanderbilt University Law School, Director of Clinical Educ., George Edward Barrett, Douglas S. Johnston, Jr., James Bryan Lewis, Barrett, Johnston & Parsley, Nashville, TN, for American Civil Liberties Union, TN Chapter, Leeann G. Anderson, Steve Dixon Cates, Joan G. Hill, Dawn Weiss Montgomery, Leon Richard Nuell, Joseph Donald Shaw, Dale A. Tipps.

Mathew D. Staver, Erik W. Stanley, Longwood, FL, Lanis L. Karnes-Loeback, Karnes Legal Services of Tennessee, P.C., Jackson, TN, for Rutherford County, Tennessee, Nancy R. Allen.


MEMORANDUM

ECHOLS, District Judge.

Presently pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Docket Entry No. 2) seeking to enjoin the removal of the "Foundations of American Law and Government" display, which includes the text of the Ten Commandments, from the main floor lobby of the Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Defendants have responded in opposition.1

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