1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.Supp.
  4. 663 F.Supp.
  5. 663 F.Supp. 606 (1987)
 

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC. v. ZIELKE

No. 85-C-850-C.

663 F.Supp. 606 (1987)

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC., a Wisconsin Nonstock Corporation, Phyllis Grams, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and Anne Nicol Gaylor, Plaintiffs, v. Patrick ZIELKE, individually and as Mayor of the City of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Common Council of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and City of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

June 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Jacobson, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs.

G. Jeffrey George, Steele, Klos & Flynn, LaCrosse, Wis., for defendants.

OPINION and ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

This is a civil action for injunctive relief brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs contend that the display in a city park of a marker setting out the text of the Ten Commandments violates their rights to be free of public support of religion and religious societies and to be free of governmental preference for religious establishments, and that it interferes with their rights of conscience.

Trial...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases