ALCAZAR v. CORP. OF CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SEATTLE

No. 09-35003.

598 F.3d 668 (2010)

Jesus ALCAZAR, Plaintiff, and Cesar Rosas, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CORPORATION OF the CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SEATTLE; Horatio Yanez, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 16, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsay Halm, Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Karen A. Kalzer, Patterson Buchanan Fobes Leitch & Kalzer, Inc., M. Colleen Kinerk, Cable Langenbach Kinerk & Bauer, LLP, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: ROBERT R. BEEZER, RONALD M. GOULD, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.


BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

"The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach." Everson v. Bd. of Educ., 330 U.S. 1, 18, 67 S.Ct. 504, 91 L.Ed. 711 (1947). The interplay between the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses creates an exception to an otherwise fully applicable statute if the statute would interfere...

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