The BRONX HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH, Robert Hall, and Jack Roberts, Plaintiff-Appellees,
v.
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK and Community School District No. 10, Defendant-Appellants.
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Jay Worona , Pilar Sokol , New York State School Boards Association, Inc., Latham, NY, for Amicus Curiae New York State School Boards Association, Inc.
Ayesha N. Khan , Alex J. Luchenitser , Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Beth Haroules , Arthur Eisenberg , Donna Lieberman , New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Daniel Mach , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae New York Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union.
Thomas P. Gies , Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr. , Crowell & Moring, LLP, New York, NY; Kimberlee Wood Colby, Center for Law & Religious Freedom of the Christian Legal Society, Springfield, VA, for Amici Curiae Council of Churches of the City of New York, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Brooklyn Council of Churches, Queens Federation of Churches, American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York, Synod of New York, Reformed Church in America, Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing, Anglican Church in North America, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, National Association of Evangelicals, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, American Bible Society, The Rev. Charles H. Straut, Jr. and Christian Legal Society.
Judge WALKER dissents by separate opinion.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
LEVAL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal raises the question whether the Board of Education of The City of New York (the "Board"),1 in making the City's school facilities available outside of school hours for use by outside users and subsidizing such use, may, in furtherance of interests favored by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, refuse to permit the holding of religious worship services. The United States District Court for...
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