Cert Grant in Summum

[Marc Stern]

Moerdler at stroock.com

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The Supreme Court today granted cert in an unusual Ten Commandments case, Summum v. Pleasant Grove City.  The case was brought by a religious organization that wanted to put up its own religious monument in a city park, given that there was already a Ten Commandments display there.  The Tenth Circuit found for the plaintiffs, agreeing with them that the park was a traditional public forum from which the plaintiffs could only be excluded upon the showing of a compelling interest.  The panel's decision seems pretty dubious - I imagine the Supreme Court will reverse, with a logic along the lines of Judge McConnell's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc.
 
Best,
Chris
 
Christopher C. Lund
Assistant Professor of Law
Mississippi College School of Law
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