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STEELE v. INDUSTRIAL DEV. BD. OF METROPOLITAN GOV.

No. CIV. 3:91-0421.

117 F.Supp.2d 693 (2000)

Harold E. STEELE, Don Peterson, Rev. David Maynard, Harmon Wray, Rev. Tom Baker, Jr., Individually, and as State Tax Payers and as Members of Americans for Religious Liberty; and Americans for Religious Liberty, a Foreign, Not-For-Profit Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. The INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY; the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County; David Lipscomb University; Sovran Bank; Sovran Bank/ Tennessee. Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

October 24, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Howell Johnston, David Randolph Smith, David Randolph Smith & Associates, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs.

Bobby Dean Davis, Madison, TN, James Lawrence Charles, James Leo Murphy, III, Paul D. Krivacka, Bradley Alan MacLean, Farris, Warfield & Kanaday, Robert J. Warner, Jr., Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, James Logan McElroy, Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Nashville, TN, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM

TRAUGER, District Judge.

In this proceeding to invalidate a political subdivision's bond issue to benefit a private, religious university, the principal inquiry is whether the bond issue violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The court has before it motions for summary judgment filed by Defendant David Lipscomb University ("Lipscomb"), Defendant Metropolitan Government of Nashville...

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