Alicia M. PEDREIRA; Karen Vance; Paul Simmons; Johanna W.H. Van Wijk-Bos; and Elwood Sturtevant, Plaintifs-Appellants,
v.
KENTUCKY BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN, INC.; Ishmun F. Burks, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; and Janie Miller, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued: March 11, 2009.
Decided and Filed: August 31, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Alexander Joseph Luchenitser, Americans United For Separation Of Church and State, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Jonathan David Goldberg, Goldberg Simpson, LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, John O. Sheller, Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Alexander Joseph Luchenitser, Ayesha N. Khan, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, D.C., David B. Bergman, Elizabeth Leise, Alicia A.W. Truman, Joshua P. Wilson, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, D.C., Kenneth Y. Choe, James D. Esseks, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, David A. Friedman, William E. Sharp, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, Daniel Mach, American Civil Liberties Union Program On Freedom of Religion & Belief, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Jonathan David Goldberg, Goldberg Simpson, LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, John O. Sheller, Jeffrey A. Calabrese, Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, Louisville, Kentucky, Patrick T. Gillen, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Timothy J. Tracey, Center For Law & Religious Freedom, Springfield, Virginia, LaDonna Lynn Koebel, Josua C. Billings, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, for Appellees. Steven W. Fitschen, The National Legal Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Edward L. White III, The American Center for Law & Justice, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Amici Curiae.
Before: CLAY and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges; GREER, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
OPINION
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants Alicia M. Pedreira, Karen Vance, and several Kentucky taxpayers1 appeal the district court's dismissal of their claims against defendants-appellees Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, Inc. ("KBHC"); Ishmun F. Burks, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; and Janie Miller, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Cabinet for...
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