TOWN OF GREECE, N.Y. v. GALLOWAY

No. 12-696.

134 S.Ct. 1811 (2014)

188 L.Ed.2d 835

TOWN OF GREECE, NEW YORK, Petitioner v. Susan GALLOWAY et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 5, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Hungar , Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Ian H. Gershengorn , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioner.

Douglas Laycock , Charlottesville, VA, for Respondents.

Douglas Laycock , University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA, Charles A. Rothfeld , Richard B. Katskee , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, Ayesha N. Khan , Counsel of Record, Gregory M. Lipper , Caitlin E. O'Connell , Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, DC, for Respondents.


Justice KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part II-B.*

The Court must decide whether the town of Greece, New York, imposes an impermissible establishment of religion by opening its monthly board meetings with a prayer. It must be concluded, consistent with the Court's opinion in Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783, 103 S.Ct. 3330, 77 L.Ed.2d 1019 (1983), that no violation of the...

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