AMERICAN ATHEISTS v. PORT AUTH. OF N.Y. & N.J.

Docket No. 13-1668-cv.

760 F.3d 227 (2014)

AMERICAN ATHEISTS, INC., Dennis Horwitz, Kenneth Bronstein, Jane Everhart, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Mark Panzarino, Plaintiff, v. PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY, National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, State of New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie, Silverstein Properties, Inc., Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Brian Jordan, World Trade Center Properties, LLC, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 28, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin F. Kagin , American Atheists, Inc., Union, Kentucky ( Eric O, Husby, Esq. , Tampa, Florida, on the brief), for Appellants.

Mark H. Alcott ( Gerard E. Harper , Paul A. Paterson , on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, New York, New York, for Appellee National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc.

Megan Lee , The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York, New York, for Appellee Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Jay Alan Sekulow , Stuart J. Roth , Jordan A. Sekulow , American Center for Law & Justice, Washington, D.C.; David A. French , Carly F. Gammill , American Center for Law & Justice, Franklin, Tennessee; Robert W. Ash , American Center for Law & Justice, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Amici Curiae The American Center for Law & Justice and The Committee to Protect the Ground Zero Cross.

Steven W. Fitschen , The National Legal Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Amici Curiae Wallbuilders, Inc. and The National Legal Foundation.

Matthew J. Dowd , Megan L. Brown , Brendan Morrissey , Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Brian Jordan, OFM.

Eric S. Baxter , Asma Uddin , Diana Verm , The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Before: RAGGI, LYNCH, and CHIN, Circuit Judges.


REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a group of Islamic terrorists murdered almost 3,000 persons by hijacking four commercial airplanes and crashing them into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.1 Ten years to the day after these horrific events, the current and former Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, traveled to the World Trade...

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