Moment of silence gets moment in court.

Stateline.org | October 31, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Pauline Vu

WASHINGTON _ Illinois joined the ranks of at least a dozen states that impose a mandatory moment of silence in public schools when its Legislature this month passed a law over the veto of the governor.

A challenge to that law, filed almost immediately by a student and her father, again will test whether a moment of silence is a way to include organized prayer in schools, a practice outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962 as a violation of the First Amendment's ban against laws promoting an establishment of religion.

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