FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC. v. OBAMA

No. 08-cv-588-bbc.

617 F.Supp.2d 808 (2009)

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC., Annie Nicol Gaylor, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Paul Gaylor, Dan Barker, Phyllis Rose and Jill Dean, Plaintiffs, v. President Barack OBAMA, White House Press Secretary Robert L. Gibbs, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

May 26, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Bolton, Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field LLP, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Bruce A. Olsen, Thomas Charles Bellavia, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, Alan Sears, Benjamin W. Bull, Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, AZ, Joel Oster, Kevin Theriot, Alliance Defense Fund, Leawood, KS, Brad P. Rosenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Geoffrey Surtees, American Center for Law and Justice, New Hope, KY, for Defendants.


OPINION and ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

Plaintiff Freedom from Religion Foundation is a Wisconsin nonprofit organization devoted to preserving the separation of church and state. Plaintiffs Annie Nicol Gaylor, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Paul Gaylor, Dan Barker, Phyllis Rose and Jill Dean are members of the foundation. In this civil action, plaintiffs are challenging the constitutionality of the statute...

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