Federal district courts, religious speech, and the public forum: an analysis of litigation patterns and outcomes.

From: Journal of Church and State | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Blakeman, John C. | Copyright information

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School continued a two-decade trend of cases addressing the merger of two First Amendment freedoms: freedom of speech and freedom of religion. (1) In Good News, the Court focused on a New York school district's refusal to let a private Christian organization hold after-school Bible classes in a public school cafeteria for elementary school children. Although the school district allowed other community groups t...

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