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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION v. HAMILTON COUNTY

No. 1:02-CV-026.

202 F.Supp.2d 757 (2002)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE; Thomas E. Bibler and Nancy A. Bibler; Josef A. Davidson; C. Brad Guagnini; Roland Johnson, Jr.; William David Jones; Tracy Knauss and Donna Knauss; John W. Mingus, Sr.; Philip M. Posner; Robert H. Siskin and Priscilla Siskin; and Melanie Morel Sullivan, Plaintiffs, v. HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE; the County Commission of Hamilton County and Fred R. Skillern, Richard Casavant, Charlotte E. Vandergriff, William R. Cotton, Jr., Joanne H. Favors, Ben F. Miller, Jr., Harold R. Coker, Curtis D. Adams, and Bill Hullander, in their official capacities as County Commissioners of Hamilton County, Tennessee, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, at Chattanooga.

May 3, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert E. Hamilton, III, Chattanooga, TN, Susan L. Kay, Aclu of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs.

Rheubin M. Taylor, Hamilton County Attorney, Chattanooga, TN, R. Wayne Peters and Sam Elliott, Chattanooga, TN, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EDGAR, Chief Judge.

I.

Background

On September 19, 2001, the Hamilton County, Tennessee, County Commission (herein sometimes called the "Commission") voted, with one recorded dissent, that a copy of the Ten Commandments be "prominently displayed in the Hamilton County Courthouse, the Hamilton County City Courts Building, and the Juvenile Courts." On December 18, 2001, plaques containing the Ten Commandments...

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